Facebook may mar even the best of resumes
According to an article in the UCLA student newspaper, you shouldn’t post photos of yourself doing stupid, half naked, drunk things, or let people write on your wall about the stupid half naked drunk things you did…
Sims said there have been several cases of employers rescinding job offers to student candidates because of information obtained through Facebook. She said employers will find content they determine to be less than professional or inappropriate, and many students do not realize the consequences.
What bothers me more (being on facebook) is the prevalence of these types of activities, and the brazen-ness with which people post about them. It breaks my heart, on both levels.
It’s a big part of why I do what I do… to help pick up the broken pieces once they are done being shredded by the system (drinking, partying, sleeping around, and thinking that that’s all there is…). It’s not that I’m simply against the system, labelling it as wrong. I just see the system break people’s lives. Leaving them emotionally, spirtiually, and often, physically scarred for the rest of their lives.
That article makes total sense. I know a lot of college students who “Facebook” and it seems to be on the point of obsession at times, and I can only imagine the type of things that get posted all around that site from all of the different campuses around the country. Though I think it could be a useful tool, I think a lot of people don’t understand the global effect it can have on their reputation, because they are obviously posting it to the entire world…
I’m sure my blog will come back to bite me someday… I’ll be at in interview for a great job and then I’ll hear “on the 12th of May in 2005 you are quoted as writing this on your personal web log” and then they’ll go into something I was joking around about and now it ruined my chance for a job. ;o)
My co-workers googled my name before I started working and found my old ISU webpage and were amazed that I was even hired. I had sweet long hair and had a picture of Kurt Cobain that I was trying to look like. They still laugh at me for it.
That is because they are obviously JEALOUS of you Lennander. You had a killer piranha, sweet long(greasy) dirty blond hair and the in-style ‘white’ hat. They may have been laughing at what you put down for your weight…???
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~lumby
Just in case anyone was curious.
Dan, I really appreciate that on your links page, you have two sports sites, ESPN and WWF (OK, calling wrestling a sport might be a stretch), followed by a site about poop, followed by rockisu.com. Brilliant.
…and the fact that some of these things folks prominently and boastfully mention on their facebooks are things they and their acquaintances find boastworthy… as gaining plus points in the social world.