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What Does Your Internet FOOTPRINT Say About You?
Filed in archive Employees by Deborah Brown on July 23, 2006
What Does Your Internet FOOTPRINT Say About You?
Do you have a MySpace or Facebook account or a blog on which you post your thoughts, happenin's and opinions?

Consider this: some employers are now using the Internet in their background check before considering hiring a new employee. Those jokes and comments that perhaps don't match up with your interview "game face" could come back and bite you in the butt.

Tim DeMello, founder and CEO of Ziggs, an online search directory and community for professionals, discovered a Facebook comment from one of his interns in which the intern bragged about getting paid while doing very little work. According to the recent edition of entrepreneur magazine, DeMello confronted the intern who admitted his poor work ethic and subsequently lost his job.

What do you think about this practice? Have you used the Internet for information when choosing a candidate to fill a vacancy in your company? Are Internet snooping lawsuits just around the corner?

No matter what your opinion, it pays to think before you post something on the Internet. Once it's there - it's there to stay.


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