Social Disaster - is your Job Search Safe - CareerAlley

Social Disaster - is your Job Search Safe - CareerAlley We may receive compensation when you click on links to products from our partners. I was recently recruiting for an open position and, after numerous resumes and interviews, narrowed the search down to three candidates and then the final choice. The winning candidate had a very impressive resume and all of his references checked out. Then came the background check (which includes a fairly robust Internet search) and we discovered some disturbing news. The final candidate was a quite active political dissident (on the Internet, using blogs and comments). Now, this might not cause alarm on its own, but his comments bordered on libelous and some statements were inches away from overthrow the government. Needless to say, we passed on this candidate. Do you know what will show up in a robust Internet search on you? Better yet, do you know how your Internet persona is perceived by others (it doesn't really matter what you think)? Tweet This What about you?

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