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Social Networking Technology Boots Job Recruiting

One way these technologies can be utilized, is for HR purposes. In fact according to the careerbuilder.com 72% to 80% of employers are using social media to find workers. In the article "Social Networking Technology Boosts Job Recruiting" Frank Langfitt points out the fact that these recruiters are not just interested in your Linkedin accounts like i would've guest but also in your Facebook and Myspace accounts. With about two in five companies checking your social media profiles to evaluate your character and personality it's inevitable that they find some inappropriate things that may cause them to reconsider an applicant. To help job seekers like us better understand the role of social media in their job search, CareerBuilder.com conducted a survey of 2,303 hiring managers and human resource professionals. A third (34%) of employers who scan social media profiles said they have found content that has caused them not to hire the candidate. The good news is that hiring managers aren’t just screening your social media profiles to dig up dirt; they’re also looking for information that could possibly give you an advantage. The CareerBuilder survey revealed that 29% of surveyed hiring managers found something positive on a profile that drove them to offer the candidate a job.

Facebook Privacy Is So Confusing Even the Zuckerberg Family Photo Isn't Private

In the article "Facebook privacy is so confusing even the Zukerburg family photo isn't private" Rebecca Greenfield recalls an incident on Facebook where the founder of Facebook Mark Zukerburg's sister Randi posted a photo only intended for her personal friends. However with the emerging privacy settings on the site the photo got into the hands of a mutual follower who then reposted the photo on her timeline. This was able to occur over the new "privacy" settings being developed by Facebook. I feel as though privacy has a new meaning these days and i see the term only becoming more blurred as time progress and as new technologies emerge. After reading this article i recall my own experience where the lines on privacy were blurred. A couple months back i switch my phone from iPhone to Android , and in doing so i wanted to transfer my information from one phone to the next. When it came time to transfer my pictures from the iPhone to the android i was warned not that it may take some time depending on how many pictures were in the phone. Being that i had just deleted a bulk of the pictures out of the iPhone i figured it shouldn't take more than a couple minutes. Wrong! I was there for 2 hours transferring photos all due to the fact that when u delete photos on an iPhone they are not at all deleted and store on their iCloud system. This was an eye opener for me and it showed me that nowadays privacy isn't a given and has to be explicitly specified like in the article it states " Randi has indicated that she only wants her friends to see photos that she has posted. But the way Facebook works, friends of your friends tagged in a photo album also see the entire roll, unless you choose otherwise in the settings of the album posted. The term "friends" in this album at right indicates my friends and all the friends of people tagged in the post. Changing that involves clicking "custom" and unchecking a box that reads "friends of those tagged." Randi shouldn’t have to activate privacy features. Instead she should have had to enable public features.