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Employers Using Facebook to Screen Job Profiles


A recent survey by careerbuilder.com announced a statistic that may cause you to reconsider posting certain images and details for all to see on your Facebook profile page.

According to the study, one out of five company managers, would check out job applicants' profiles on Facebook before making a final decision, and of those profiles reviewed, one third were ultimately rejected.

Obviously pictures of individuals shot-gunning beers, or taking drugs in some sleazy strip joint at a friends bachelor party are not going to go over to well with most potential employers, so if you have just had an interview, now is probably a good time to remove those pix of you embracing with 'Candy' before it's too late.

The survey also found that managers checked for applicants bad-mouthing a former boss, or employer which was also something that was not going to score you any extra brownie points.

Ten percent of the employers involved in the survey, who currently did not screen applicants' social networking profiles, said that they would now do so in the future.

Careerbuilder.com had announced back in 2007 that it would match jobs and internship programs with candidates within the Facebook Platform, so no prizes for who gave employers the idea on profile screening.

Facebook, according to comScore is the leading social networking platform with the most unique, monthly visitors. ComScore reported that as of June 2008 Facebook attracted 132.1 million unique visitors, compared with Myspace's 117.6 million.