Before you post online those risque images from the Halloween party, remember that a prospective employer might be seeing them.
Apparently, one in four hiring managers use the internet to research potential employees.
At the very least, expect to be Googled. From the survey by CareerBuilder.com:
“Of those hiring managers who used Internet search engines to research job candidates, 51 percent did not hire the person based on what they found. Of those who used social networking sites to research candidates, the majority (63 percent) did not hire the person based on what they found.”
The rise of social networking sites like MySpace, personal blogs and photo-sharing sites like Flickr means that there is an entire generation living their lives in public online. But they need to be aware that anything they put on the internet is available to everyone – friends, parents, teachers, employers.
As a rule, don’t put anything online that could reflect badly on you.
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