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What Employers Are Thinking When They Look At Your Facebook Page
Why interview when you can Facebook stalk? Like it or not, Facebook and
other sites like it are becoming the digital proxies for our real world selves.
Our profiles on Facebook, Pinterest, Google+, Twitter, et. al. reflect our likes,
dislikes, personalities, and best photo angles, and are likely more useful to
employers in seeing what we might be like to work with than a short interview.
If you don’t want employers to come snooping on your page to get a sense of
who you are, set your privacy settings high; limit your content to “friends
only.” If you are willing to let it hang out, here’s a sense of what employers
will be asking themselves as they review your content. This is the sheet that
the reviewers in the study used to rate the Facebooking college students on
the “Five Big Qualities” that supposedly convey how good an employee will
be. (High ratings are good for everything but “Neuroticism.”)
After looking at publicly-available photos, status updates, conversations with
friends, and Wall postings, the raters scored each candidate accordingly:
“Chase the vision, not the money, the money