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

[Surag R]

On 11/2/06, Peter Neilson <neilson at windstream.net> wrote:
>
> Ugh! Some of us have exceptionally common names. Google reveals at least
> several of me, in a total of about 25,000 records. If I include my
> middle initial, it finds only six records, five of them probably mine.
> The other is mayor of a town in (I think) Maine.


Apart from the common names, what about the matter of identity theft?
Posting articles/views in somebody else's name and a fake email id is very
common. Nopes, you need not be a celebrity to be a victim of that. Anybody
can become a target of a sick mind. Don't know whether the recruitment
managers can filter such cases.

Regards,
Surag