Just curious: anyone in recruiting or know of this, do your organizations screen social media sites like Facebook, twitter etc, for candidates before hiring them?

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Posting as :
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I creep on everyone

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I'm going to guess his postings have something to do with the recent election?

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It's not discriminatory because it's no different than hiring someone because you didn't get a good vibe from them in their interview. Everything is up for questioning when you are interviewing, including what you put on social media.

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I don't think PwC 2 has taken their discrimination training. Political views and acting like an asshole are not protected characteristics. Now if you went to the social media and said "oh this person is Christian", then that would've discriminatory since religion is a protected characteristic. It's only discrimination if you're discriminating against a protected characteristic.

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The whole thing is that, if pushed, a company would never get in trouble for not hiring someone because of something on their social media because companies would never admit it (there's always a legitimate reason they can fall back on). That's why I said, it happens ALL the time and people should just keep accounts private.

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I would assume that everyone is going to do a basic search of your social media accounts. Smart people make everything private. If you've got your accounts set to public then you might want to change that.

I know from working in industry that when my boss was hiring into our department we would look people up on social media just to get an idea of them. Not really searching for anything in particular...more looking to see if there was something that might really turn us off from their personality (i.e. a ton of pictures of them skinning dead animals they hunted or liking page's that were pro-bigotry). Best if you keep all your accounts private because inevitably people search you

Thanks! I just wanted to make sure my logical was correct. One of my friend's brothers is trying to get a professional job but he doesn't understand this concept

Oh man! Well hopefully you can convince him. If not, it'll be a long road for him

The only reason why I'm really concerned is because he wants to use me as a referral and he already has before he started posting some pretty questionable things...

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I think it might be illegal; sounds discriminatory

Hey Senior1 maybe you should take yours; I do a lot of Campus hiring and we are told to stay off of social media as it relates to candidates, too many grey areas where it becomes a legal risk for the firm. Google it, here's the first article that popped up for me: http://www.forbes.com/sites/lisaquast/2012/05/28/social-media-passwords-and-the-hiring-process-privacy-and-other-legal-rights/#71fe83237b4c

Again, politics affiliation is not a protected characteristic. What this article is saying is that just because something is in the public domain doesn't mean you can make hiring decisions off of it. What that likely is referring to is to protected characteristics. For example, if you go to facebook and see the candidate is far right religious evangelical, you can't discriminate because of that (religion is protected). If you go to FaceBook and see candidate hitting a bong load or posting political rants that contain hateful speech, you can make decisions off of those because they aren't protected characteristics.

It all has to do with what you're basing your decision off of and whether such items are protected.

^ya absolutely. Keep your shit private, then nothing to worry about.

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