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The Job Was Mine, but MySpace Tripped Me Up
Aug 7MySpace isn’t just your space, it’s in outer space. (Well, at least on the internet, if not intergalactic.) And this ad for Tubes does a pretty good job of showing the risks of living your life online. It’s a challenge for employers: Do you look? Or not? Is it your business to know what a candidate does at kegger parties, or is that their private life? It’s a conundrum.
(Found at Doug Haslam’s excellent Gischeleman’s Blog.)
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Frank Roche
Frank started IFRACTAL over 7 years ago with Sarah Chambers. Together, they've created HR communications and HR software for some of the world's leading companies. Frank is also studying Flamenco guitar and origami.
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Thanks for the link! The Tubes folks certainly do it is an issue – their software allows for private social networks, so you can keep your “fun” content off the public Internet if you choose.
Doug
Hi Doug, really interesting take. And I really dig your writing…interesting. Tubes is cool….yep, keep your “interesting” stuff offline, or at leat out of sight.
As for “do you check?” I tell clients they definitely should. Your job is to get the best people on board and you should use any reasonable and legal means to check them out.
Wally, thanks. The job is to get great people…I’m not sure if I like companies getting into private matters, but that’s just a difference of opinion.