For Some, Online Persona Undermines a Résumé

Iria · Jun 12, 2006, 03:46 AM

Source: Sarasota Herald-Tribune
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When a small consulting company in Chicago was looking to hire a summer intern this month, the company's president went online to check on a promising candidate who had just graduated from the University of Illinois.

At Facebook, a popular social networking site, the executive found the candidate's Web page with this description of his interests: "smokin' blunts" (cigars hollowed out and stuffed with marijuana), shooting people and obsessive sex, all described in vivid slang.

It did not matter that the student was clearly posturing. He was done.

BWX · Jun 12, 2006, 04:11 AM

Wow he is an idiot!

LeanWolf · Jun 12, 2006, 11:57 AM

Haha moron!

Drakon · Jun 12, 2006, 12:16 PM

That's why you use an alias

YAYitsAndrew · Jun 12, 2006, 12:28 PM

This is rediculous. Your personal life should have no bearing on whether you get a job or not, as long as you're professional in the work place. How many good workers do you know that go home on friday and do things that would be inappropriate in a work setting?

If this company cares about drug use, do a drug test. I used to have quotes like "Children should be eaten and not heard" on my facebook which is standard fare for my sense of humor if you know me. I had to remove that stuff in fear of a potential future employer "not getting it".

Jun 12, 2006, 03:46 AM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 89	For Some, Online Persona Undermines a Résumé Source: Sarasota Herald-Tribune __________ When a small consulting company in Chicago was looking to hire a summer intern this month, the company's president went online to check on a promising candidate who had just graduated from the University of Illinois. At Facebook, a popular social networking site, the executive found the candidate's Web page with this description of his interests: "smokin' blunts" (cigars hollowed out and stuffed with marijuana), shooting people and obsessive sex, all described in vivid slang. It did not matter that the student was clearly posturing. He was done.

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YAYitsAndrew Anti-Piracy Poster Boy Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: NJ Posts: 2,605 Rep Power: 79 System Specs	This is rediculous. Your personal life should have no bearing on whether you get a job or not, as long as you're professional in the work place. How many good workers do you know that go home on friday and do things that would be inappropriate in a work setting? If this company cares about drug use, do a drug test. I used to have quotes like "Children should be eaten and not heard" on my facebook which is standard fare for my sense of humor if you know me. I had to remove that stuff in fear of a potential future employer "not getting it". __________________ "It is because the resistance to paying for copyrighted material, although often characterized as arising from a supposed technical burden or principled concern for the public interest, arises rather from exactly the same segment of the brain that is dominant in shoplifters." - Mark Helprin, Digital Barbarism In other words, it's never okay to steal even if you think you have a good reason! www.yayitsandrew.com

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Drakon DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Floatin'... Posts: 4,957 Rep Power: 0	That's why you use an alias