Facebook profile request during job interviews
Facebook profile request during job interviews
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So I searched facebook and saw an old 2010 discussion about this. Nothing recently.
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Does anyone else think this is a bad practice? I keep my facebook locked down for privacy, and the most I say about work is "Had a long day at work today" or "Worked 12 hours today".
I was going over the ASME Ethics for MechE's and they really say nothing about being a decent person, not posting stupid links on FB, etc etc....As long as you put the public good first, as an engineer and promote the profession in a positive way.
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Does anyone else think this is a bad practice? I keep my facebook locked down for privacy, and the most I say about work is "Had a long day at work today" or "Worked 12 hours today".
I was going over the ASME Ethics for MechE's and they really say nothing about being a decent person, not posting stupid links on FB, etc etc....As long as you put the public good first, as an engineer and promote the profession in a positive way.





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There are some legitimate uses for Facebook and your job if you are a model or actor. A lot of modeling agencies ask for FB or other social network instead of a portfolio. For that it makes sense. And it should be voluntary, but that isn't how things work. There is tremendous pressure to supply everything they ask for for fear of getting booted into the circular file.
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George Orwell's 'Big Brother' from his book 1984 is here! It takes the form of scores of HR 'Catberts'.
Why do companies want to only hire employees with unquestionable ethics, when the companies operate without any?
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I don't have one because I didn't want anyone invading my privacy (and because I don't have any friends hahaha).... and I am actually pretty pissed that I caved into the linkedin website. At least that is not as bad.
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I'm going to cite my professional ethics, and the body of work I completed as an engineer. Beyond that, I'm not letting HR inspect my car, my wallet, the lint in my pocket, my facebook, the locked box under my bed.
Asking me to give up my personal passwords and reveal my personal life is ethically questionable to me. Because it's simply invasive, and offers no greater good. It does not serve the public to know what I do on FB... Not to mention...without paying me, if they're already going to work me into a corner, what will happen once I work there.
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Does anyone, even a worthless HR weenie have time to check if they have been dropped as a friend?
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A more appropriate tactic would be to add them as a friend, but block them from seeing anything. They'll see your account exists, but see nothing else, not even pics.
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(that can be done?)
And what message does that send the HR weanies? That you are pulling their chain?
Possibly better to deny having a facebook account or state that it is personal not business?
And how come HR can view Facebook etc on company computers and in company time?
Sorry, silly question.
I resent Facebook.
I did get an account but I really don't like the way so many sites now automatically pick up my facebook log in and want to log me in via facebook and then report my activity to all the world. I don't want to share anything via facebook. I can't even remember why I signed in the first place.
I don't use it for anything.
Linked in is another matter. It seems that in the groups I have joined my posts attract some attention and I have received some useful enquiries as a result.
But I can't see any use for Facebook.
Ironic how so many people complain about a Big Brother Society with Government knowing everything about us and then they all sign up of Facebook and volunteer all sorts of additional details.
What a gift to anyone wanting to indulge in a little identity theft.
JMW
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Interesting that you should bring up the point about identity theft because I read an article last week saying that scammers and identity thieves are now turning to linked-in to steal your information as well. So beware.
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Good luck,
Latexman
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I was always under the impression that logins and passwords are private and non transferable; why would you need a password if everybody knows it. It would be unethical to even ask.
I do not even have a photo in thier and the only freinds are my kids a few relatives, 12 in all.
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No one here has ever snooped for a candidate on Google, LinkedIn or FB? If you put your life in public media, expect the public to see it. If you find someone that is too stupid to vet their own public postings, do you really want them working with you?
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- Steve
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Good luck,
Latexman
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j, you can block pretty much everything if you so desire, and on a person by person basis. Once they look at your profile, they'll see the FB layout, your main pic, and something to the effect of "This user has chosen to hide this info unless you know them" for everything they could select. It's effective when you don't want certain family members from reading particular posts.
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Good luck,
Latexman
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I'd like to see some high profile smack-downs of the worst abusers to put the fear into them.
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Personally, I'm not going to give them my password, with the plan to change it later. I don't mind the background check, but that's all publicly available information, like DUI's and bankruptcy.
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The best way to avoid the problem is: don't have a Facebook account.
For those who ask to see it as part of a job-related background check...my response would be, "Ya, um, let me think about that...OK, no." The conversation would end there.
Regards,
SNORGY.
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I have not counted the number of friends who self-describe themselves as 'alternative', a witch/goddess, or in possession of some special power (can thought-talk to animals). How does any of that really show how I am as an employee, or what my values are, other than tolerant of a wide range of personalities?
What they really should be asking for is my Eng-Tips login.
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The HR guy thinks it is reasonable, the job applicant thinks it's not.
B.E.
The good engineer does not need to memorize every formula; he just needs to know where he can find them when he needs them. Old professor
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If someone posts inappropriate pictures on your wall, unfriend them. You have better things to do with your time than censor posts. I suspect that most of us have children on our friend lists.
I wonder how Facebook savvy these HR droids are. Most of the people I know on Facebook are lurkers. They don't post. There is nothing to learn.
I have one "friend" who treats Facebook as an on-line diary. If she assassinates some important person, we will be able to develop a personality profile from her posts. I am not holding my breath.
Most Facebook posts are not serious. I have another friend who is in Whitehorse, Yukon, on a consulting job. This is the nearest thing I have seen to a work related post.
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I know necessity can be a heck of a thing, but I'd like to think I'd get up and walk away from the interview shortly after shaming whatever maggot asked for that information. I suspect they are taking advantage of the fact that people are desperate for work. Once this becomes common practice, it will be hard for anybody to take a stand.
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Asking for login details is identity theft and is as bad as demanding you hand over your wallet. You could always reply to that request that you had given your login to hundreds of people and they all used your account to post god knows what under your name. What did they intend to add.
I certainly would never employ anyone who could be coerced into providing their login details as I would not trust them to not also disclose company confidential information if pressed.
I am seriously rethinking my linkedin account which I created when looking for more work.
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Nationality, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, political affiliation. All of those are on FB.
So that's a way to get out of it, and maintain a civil discourse.
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These days, maybe schools look at teachers too!
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I have read numerous legal analyses stating that the employer can be allowed to have the information, as long as they don't use it to discriminate. I can see companies squawking about protecting corporate security by poking around your Facebook account, but if they just happen to encounter photographs of you getting arrested during an Occupy protest, or dressed in drag during a pride parade, oh well. I guess the judicial system thinks that corporations and HR weenies would never do anything so underhanded as to use this information to weed out people they don't want, even if discriminatory. I guess the courts think that they will simply admit it.
And what happens when they do ask? Are you going to whip out a copy of the state employment laws and show them the error of their ways. That's got the same outcome as just getting up and walking out.
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Plus it is said that criminal gangs are focussing on this vulnerability.
All you have to do is complain abo0ut something on someone's site and FB passes all the access details to the third world and thus, allegedly, to criminal gangs.
No problem for HR then.
JMW
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I have, however, been very hungry for a job in the last couple of years.
Sometimes, as I heard in a movie, you just have to lay back, look at the stars, and wait for them to finish.
The current employment issue in the US is probably going to get better and is unlikely to repeat for some time, if the history of the 20th century tells us anything.
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There is one other possibility that you have all not considered.
Create an alternate Facebook page to be shown to employers. You need to work as a team on this. Everybody posts stuff that will be perceived by HR as politically correct. HR is impressed by you and your friends.
Your drinking, belly dancing, skiing and dirty jokes go on your personal site.
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Imagine giving your login and password details to a potential employer and them discovering that you claim to be a 12 year old girl!
- Steve
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A few people suggested setting up a fake FB. In my opinion, that's unethical. The intention is to deceive the employer about who you are in your personal life. I'm not ok with that. As a professional, and a good person.
They're doing something unethical by asking, and I won't compromise myself to minimize the effects of their mistake.
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But modeling and acting are not like architecture and engineering. I still don't want any A/E corporation poking around my Facebook page.
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I think that is s problem with chat rooms, not Facebook.
If you friend a twelve year old girl you have never heard of, you deserve to find out she is an FBI agent.
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Should they make the job offer contingent upon revealing the password and looking through your page, you can sue them for Tortious Interference as they've now made their agreement contingent upon breaking one already in place.
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Do Not use the same email address for soliciting work as you listed on FaceBook.
This diffuses the potential for an "I don't have a FaceBook account" reply to backfire. The easiest and most positive way to find somebody on FB is by searching for a known email address. They check the email address listed on your resume and find no such address on FB. Any name match can be dismissed as "just someone else with the same name as me."
Alternately, create a shill FB account with a throw-away email and just leave it "empty".
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Asking you to break a law is conspiracy so even at that stage a law is broken, however I am not sure that breaching a contract is a crime as such. At least here there is a great difference between criminal and civil matters here and breach of contract is civil, but fraud is criminal.
Re ethics
How is it unethical to deliberately hide confidential or private information. Heck in some cases it is actually illigal to disclose it. Is it unethical to lock your doors or to not publish all your passwords or to use a deceptive code when you write down bank account access details.
The real point is if you hand over confidential info like your password when pressed, that tells the asker that you cannot be trusted to resist pressure to hand over their confidential information. Just ask Bradley Manning if it is legal to hand over confidential information.
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This is NOT a law; it's a contractual clause. FB could sue you for breach of contract, but running afoul of some law would require some additional level of nefariousness.
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Another thing to think about. What about exposing all of my friends to the interviewer? Perhaps one of my friends works for that company already, or a competitor. Does the interviewer check?
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Good luck,
Latexman
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If you recall, most people just put up with TSA agents groping them inappropriately in public until there were some significant lawsuits filed and video posted on line. I think we are right on the tip of the social network invasion by potential employer smack-down.
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I'd find it hard to see that as unethical, as I have no intention of deceiving anybody, and the photos would be real ones. Just that I have zero interest in obtaining/maintaining silly social network accounts and can't see the point of them.
Even if the intent was simply to create a "clean" account that was seperate and distinct from one's "private" account (very deliberately and quite snarky quotes for that latter one), how is that deceitful? People have made a forthright effort to maintain their public image since the dawn of time. Should we all show up to work in our weekend grubby clothes, and discuss our sexual orientation in the corporate lunchroom? Or should our private life be seperate and distinct from our public life, and our public face similarly maintained and prepped? Are women's makeup and various other "enhancements" also unethical, or are they simply their attempt to keep up appearances for their public image? How about deodorant?
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My point is that the employer asking is unethical, and potentially illegal because of they get access to information they should not. And by creating a fake account, you are misrepresenting yourself, AND enabling their unethical behavior. Misrepresenting yourself doesn't mean fake photos...but the whole process of hiding your social life and creating a few fake comments and status posts that would be seen as "OK".
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A lot of job applications have verbage to the effect, that, if the applicant mis represents him/herself in any way they will be subject to instant dismissal.
B.E.
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Please explain how a purposely created "public" Facebook page is any different than wearing your Sunday best and/or makeup and/or deodorant when going out in public?
"And by creating a fake account, you are misrepresenting yourself, "
How am I misrepresenting myself (isn't that a tautologY)? I'm me, it's my page, and who are you to tell me it's wrong to have my son do it for me, or to ask people to post some nice comments to fill out the page and make it look right? Oh, because somebody might read it and get a false impression of who I am?
How is that different than a lady putting on makeup, or wearing a pushup bra, or me hiding my tatoos, or etc. etc. etc. People are two-faced; the little white lie is a social lubricant. Are you overweeningly honest in every aspect of your life? Never driven over the speed limit, or driven home from a bar after downing a pint? Never dropped a gumwrapper, or picked your nose, or farted? Most of us have done those things at one time or another, but would not like to have the fact publicly noted/discussed, at least not with people we are not intimate with. I'd rather not know your foibles either, and so would not ask, and would rather not visit your page, even if I knew you well. But, if I really cared about my public image, and in some professions that image is worth a lot of money, I would not hesitate to "manage" that image. There are people making a lot of money in this world doing exactly that management task for other, famous people, are they doing so "unethically"?
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I was not serious when I brought up the idea of collaborating on fake accounts.
Having said that, this does not have to be deceptive. If skiing, belly dancing and car racing, activities engaged in by EngTips posters, are indications of the sort of moral turpitude that will impair a new employees engineering skills, then HR has an interest in whether or not we are engaged in them. But, they don't. Nor do jocular discussion about your favourite drink, or pictures of your pets or of your vacation, all things posted on Facebook.
In contrast, discussions about technical stuff and about professionalism probably will be found boring and will get you unfriended on Facebook very quickly.
You should not lie to HR, but you are under no obligation to tell them everything.
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lets see how that goes:-
March 24 2012 09.34.00 am breathed in
March 24 2012 09.34.20 am breathed out
etc etc
Kinda sounds more like twitter than facebook though or at least that is what I presume from what I have been told.
We still have a right to choose what we disclose and what we keep private within limits and those limits are set by relevance and reasonable need to know and potential for abuse and even by law.
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If those fractional portions of "1.3 wives, 2.3 kids" are showing too much blood; that could be a problem
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The new Terms and Conditions that came into force earlier this month ought to be worrying and may cause some people concern... especially if employers decide they want to know about your internet habits....I'm sure, in pursuit of the next dollar, Google will be only too happy to retrospectively change the conditions to allow them to sell whatever information they have, which is a lot.
It makes you realise that it was no mistake that street view also collected a lot of wifi data they weren't legally entitled to collect.
Google may be moving to the Dark Side.
Too many people who bleat about "Big Brother" and in the end what the government collects about you is nothing compared to the sum total of what people post themselves on Facebook etc. and what Google and all the others collect.
Switch from Google to Bing or any other and what difference will it make?
And if they (FB) are prepared to allow $1 per diem employees in 3rd world countries unlimited access to your data on the basis of some complaint, genuine or not, why should they care who else they let have your information?
JMW
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Here is a good answer to a potential employer.
Mostly, this is exactly what your potential employer wants to hear. If they don't, then they are idiots.
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Meanwhile I have been busy deleting Google accounts and switched to Bing. But I'm pretty sure you don't need a google account for them to be logging your every move. Try opting out where you don't log in but they track you anyway.... ideas anyone?
JMW
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"Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively."
-Dalai Lama XIV
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I read one article that stated potential employers have downgraded candidates for things like using smileys in their posts. I am particularly incensed at the few companies who have attempted to defend the practice. Some people, particularly HR types, have no sense of shame.
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I bought a GPS for hiking and skiing. I posted some stuff on Facebook about it, all the while accompanied by my cat. It took a while for the GPS to realize that we were not in Kansas. It was too bad my cat is named Chico, and not Toto.
I also posted the GPS track after I took Chico for a walk around the block. It was technically interesting to see how the track wobbled significantly more than I did. MBAs are out of fashion. I am sure everybody wants a CEO who uses GPS to track his walks with a cat.
I try to not use smiley faces when I write. Usually, I am confident that the tone of my writing reveals how serious I am. Sometimes, you have to use the smileys.
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I forget. Possibly a stiff shot of rye whiskey.
To do the wobbling indicated by the GPS, I would have had crash through or leap over a ten foot high chain link fence into a police training college parking lot. I think I would recall something like that.
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I saw a program the other day about the ability for you to get your genome mapped. The program brought up the pros and cons of such. Kind of pertaining to the Facebook dilemma.... once you let the genie out to of the bottle there is not going back keep that in mind for the future.
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In the UK the government is still rightly nervous about imposing a requirement for people to have and carry identity cards (I used to have one when they were last in force, and I found my old red driving licence the other day - bad enough that my current licence was held up as an example of old fashioned at Drivers Ed (Speed Awareness Course because it is paper and doesn't have a photo).
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No Facebook for me. I think it's stupid.
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Mike
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Most of those substances don't wear off right away. Ever wake up still drunk, or super hungover from the night before (because you were out till 3am) and have to go to work at 8am. Depending what your job is, it might be dangerous.
Credit report, I think is unnecessary.
All of this just seems like insurance on the employers part.. to hedge their bets and get a "better" or "more productive" employee. Just like when you sign up for insurance, if you aren't super super healthy, you can spend tons of time doing paperwork and pay higher premiums.
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I do agree that some of these measures are insurance in the mind of HR types, but we as a society are also to blame. Thanks to an overabundance of bottom feeding lawyers and sympathetic juries in the U.S. everyone has to cover their butts. Let's say some guy decides to go into work tomorrow with a gun and shoot a bunch of coworkers. The first thing that will happen is the families of the victims will lawyer up. it will come to light that the shooter had three prior arrests for violent crimes. Next thing that happens is the families of the victims sue the employer for failing to do a criminal background check that could have avoided this situation. So you have employers running scared. America used to be the land of the free and the home of the brave, but with every passing year Americans are willing to give up more and more of their freedoms in exchange for a false sense of security. Soapbox rant over.
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http://www.drugtesting.com/urine-alcohol-test.html
Although urine alcohol testing will indicate the presence of alcohol in a person's system, it will not indicate an individual's current condition. Once consumed, alcohol enters the blood through the stomach within about 15 minutes, causing immediate impairment. It is then metabolized by the body and, after 1½ to 2 hours, will begin to show up in the urine. Therefore, urine alcohol does not give a true picture of the person's current condition. The results indicate the person's condition several hours before. Additionally, urine alcohol concentration does not directly correspond to blood alcohol concentration.
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> Assuming only occasional drug use, it should be trivial to simply stop using during your job search, given that you know there will be a drug test.
So, to me, the actual drug use is moot. The fact that you get caught speaks volumes about your self-control, your priorities, and your decision-making (judgement) process. And if the level is pretty high, I have wonder whether you'll ever show up at work drug-effect free.
And, if you test clean, then I know that you either don't do drugs, or you have sufficient judgement to have stopped using prior to the test, which is relevant to your job performance.
So the way I see it, a drug test does potentially reveal something about an applicant's ability to think-ahead, plan, and stick to a plan. That's not even something you can always deduce from an interview.
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So, I'm hesitant to be too hardline on the Poppy bagel crowd!
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But if you get caught, and were really using drugs, during the interview process, it does speak volumes about you... none of it good.
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Fe (IronX32)
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I have discovered that my opinion of MBAs gets me past HR and into direct conversation with engineers faster. That is what I want anyway...
Had a FaceBook account...deleted it...never looked back.
Regards,
SNORGY.
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Thanks MacGyver
Good on ya,
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HR is there to look out for the company not the employees. Some HR people have established a militant relationship with the employees.
Pamela K. Quillin, P.E.
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Why do HR request facebook login's. What can I do to use it to my advantage?
Back when I was looking for a job it was a case of first impression counts. From the time I first met a potential employer in an interview they would know within 30 secs whether they were going to employ me or not.
Seeing that FB has taken off further since '09 it seems that FB screenings are becoming the 'first impression'. I don't have a FB account because of social anxiety and no friends, spend all my time at work and Saturday nights reading thru eng-tips posts.
So should I start an account, keep it clean just to make myself more employable.
I actually copped the sack from my last workplace for posting information on eng-tips. It was over ethics.
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I personally would be so disgusted by some idiot asking me for my Facebook log-in that, in all likelihood, I would launch into a five-minute acidic tirade over how stupid that idiot was that I would likely end up being escorted out of the building by security.
Of course, at that point, I probably would have decided in my own mind that I no longer wanted the job.
Asking for access to FB is just plain wrong. No excuse for it. The practice probably continues because we are intimidated into submitting to it. When enough people stand up for themselves and stop putting up with the bullying, the bullying will stop.
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SNORGY.
RE: Facebook profile request during job interviews
"I'm not saying I'm gay, but what exactly would you do if you found out I was gay by looking at my Facebook page? Would you not hire me because I'm gay, or would you be forced to hire me because I'm gay, and are you prepared do deal with the lawsuit I can lay against you in either case? Also, who's brainchild was this whole Facebook portion of the interview, and how could they not have thought that far ahead? Will that business genius have any effect on my employment in your firm?"
If the firm is worth working for, they're going to realize how far out in left field they are once you start asking these questions. If they buck the questions, then you would really rather keep looking for employment anyway.
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RE: Facebook profile request during job interviews
I think you have hit on the whole Pandoras Box aspect of this thing.
If a prospective employer looks at your facebook page, they are then presumed to, "know", what is on there.
If there are things on there, they would rather, "not know", they are then out of luck. Especially if this presumed knowlege is used as the basis for a lawsuit.
I am sure it will not take long for a few enterprising bottom feeding lawyers to come up with a way of generating money out of this.
B.E.
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RE: Facebook profile request during job interviews
Facebook is in business for one reason, to data mine it's members information, and sell it to someone. Why should these HR "amateurs" be allowed to use Facebook's material?
Or maybe they'll form another company, "HR concepts" or some-such, to sell info direct to the HR departments on a subscription basis?
I smell money to be made.
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I'm not sure if there is anything behind his request but so far I've ignored it. If I get asked, I'm going to tell him the truth and say I almost never log onto Facebook (which is the truth).
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I would never work for a company that did that.
Also as a person with minions working under me...
I would not want to hire someone that would so freely give out personal private info!!! This will indicate to me they would not keep company secrets/ proprietary info. which is very important in my industry.
RE: Facebook profile request during job interviews
I might ask 'em for their SSN, bank account number, mother's maiden name, favorite pet, and previous employer's VPN connection credentials while I'm at it.
Good on ya,
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""I might ask 'em for their SSN, bank account number, mother's maiden name, favorite pet, and previous employer's VPN connection credentials while I'm at it.""
Dave- You are of course asking this to check the applicants gullibility right?
You would not entertain any thoughts of financial gain, would you?
B.E.
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Good on ya,
Goober Dave
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RE: Facebook profile request during job interviews
or this one has more to that list: http://jobsearchtech.about.com/od/gettingthejob/a/illegal_quest.htm
Nothing about asking for passwords etc but I agree it might be a confidentiality test when they ask to see just what people will give out.
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There we go!