Employer-Proofing Your Social Media Profiles
Employer-Proofing Your Social Media Profiles by Jill Bowers on November 23, 2013 The number of online articles about personal social media accounts and the research your potential employers are likely doing continues to grow. It seems inevitable that a potential employer is going to attempt to gather information about what you are NOT telling them, so what kind of impression are you making with your online profiles or tweets? True or false? You are generally safe with venting via Twitter because less than half of your followers actually read your tweets, and the chances that your hashtags will go viral are slim. FALSE – at least the first part. If you doubt this, ask the high school senior who attended a campus information day in Brunswick, Maine and proceeded to post negative or derogatory comments about others while she was there (see They Loved Your G.P.A. Then They saw Your Tweets. – NY Times ). Remember that employers can...