by Peter Lloyd for IT Experts, Job Hunting
Forewarned is forearmed. And we’ve all been forewarned: Watch what you post on Facebook.
A CareerBuilder survey found that 45% of employers use social networking sites to weed out job candidates. When evaluating candidates, 29% snoop around Facebook, 26% scout LinkedIn, and 21% check out MySpace. With six of us scrambling for every job out there, all it takes is a compromising picture to make you one of the five out.
This new investigative capability is especially bad news if you’re on an Information Technology job search. That’s because 63% of IT employers screen by social network activity—the highest level in the survey. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: drinking, drug testing, facebook, social networks, substance abuse
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by Peter Lloyd for Job Hunting
Did we have a drink over the holiday weekend? Did we drink, by any chance, with our boss or co-workers? No, don’t tell me, we overdid it! Are we ready for another job search?
But it was the end-of-summer company picnic. Not really a work event, right? Besides, everybody was feeling good.
No matter. Anytime you’re in the presence of the people you work with, you have to consider yourself on the job and under scrutiny. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: alcohol, drinking, substance abuse
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