Article: Hiring Managers Reject More than Half of Candidates Based on Web Postings

[Martinek, Carla]

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-Carla



Survey: Employers Scrutinizing Internet Postings
Hiring Managers Reject More than Half of Candidates Based on Web
Postings

October 31, 2006 
You may want to think twice about posting photos from your last toga
party or road trip.

According to CareerBuilder.com's latest survey, one in four hiring
managers (26 percent) say they have used Internet search engines to
research potential employees. One in ten (12 percent) say they have used
social networking sites in their candidate screening process. 

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.

Full article available at
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/10/jobs_internet.html
 
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