Comments on: Pros and Cons of Looking at Candidate Social Media Accounts https://recruitshop.com/blog/pros-cons-looking-candidate-social-media-accounts/ Choose to save Wed, 11 Nov 2020 00:55:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.7 By: David https://recruitshop.com/blog/pros-cons-looking-candidate-social-media-accounts/#comment-16 Fri, 31 Oct 2014 01:23:25 +0000 http://recruitshop.com/?p=4179#comment-16 Disagree Mark & Patricia – What occurs in a social setting could very well have an immense effect on your brand should it be inappropriate, illegal, immoral or just plain stupid.
As soon as someone updates their work status to that of association to a brand, there is a link. Is it a positive, negligible or negative link?
Pre-empt the need to wait for a probation period to work out or not, by at least obtaining a more well-rounded picture of the potential employee.
You may think what you say around the table at the pub has no effect on where you work, this is incorrect. We are all continually monitored by others. Are our actions external of the workplace, separate from employment totally? Not really, as we are all Brand Ambassadors for our respective business’s.
Potential clients exist everywhere. Our actions require appropriate reflection.

]]> By: Mark https://recruitshop.com/blog/pros-cons-looking-candidate-social-media-accounts/#comment-15 Wed, 29 Oct 2014 00:01:08 +0000 http://recruitshop.com/?p=4179#comment-15 In reply to Patricia.

I agree with you, Patricia. It should be incredibly illegal for someone to infer your professional ability from details of your personal life.
Hiring HR to snoop into someone’s social profile is no different from hiring some kind of private investigator to discreetly follow you around while you’re down the pub on a Saturday. That would be seen as an horrendous breach of privacy, and the only reason this action is being considered as “okay” is because it only requires minimal effort and no real expense. The fact that information is in the “public domain” is not relevant – so is what I say around the bar to my mates, if you’re able to hear it.
Recruitment is a risk. That’s why it’s legal to have “probation” periods – to make sure your new hire is up to the requirements of the role, and didn’t lie their way into the position. Apart from that, it’s a risk that needs to be taken.

]]> By: Patricia https://recruitshop.com/blog/pros-cons-looking-candidate-social-media-accounts/#comment-14 Mon, 27 Oct 2014 23:42:28 +0000 http://recruitshop.com/?p=4179#comment-14 Employers should never have the right to ask or check a potential or employee’s social media.

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