How can putting personal information on social networking sites hurt a candidates job search efforts?
There are a lot of don’ts in terms of what you want to do with your profile. People are definitely more aware of what they are putting on their sites, giving some people the ability to look at some things and keeping some aspects private. I think now people are becoming much smarter because they might have had pictures of themselves up partying in college and now they know that it can be seen and found by potential employers and that the information they post there can be applicable to their professional lives. For instance? In terms of things not to do, don’t post a lot of personal pictures of questionable taste. My rule of thumb is if my mom couldn’t see it, I wouldn’t put it up there. You also have to be careful who you link to and who you accept in your profiles because people go beyond and look deeper into who those connections are. If you have political or social views, you want to keep that to a minimum because you never know how a potential employer could interpret those, espec
