Comments on: Social Networking Paranoia and the Hiring Process http://blog.teachwny.com/social-networking-paranoia-and-the-hiring-process/ teachWNY News and Information! Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:06:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Robby Slaughter http://blog.teachwny.com/social-networking-paranoia-and-the-hiring-process/comment-page-1/#comment-351 Robby Slaughter Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:43:41 +0000 http://blog.teachwny.com/?p=316#comment-351 While this seems like sound advice, it is based on a world in which their are private lives. Your warning is not to never partake in racy photos, but simply to ensure they do not appear on the web. This is fallacy. One should assume that all pictures taken in public places will eventually find their way onto Facebook. All stories of wrath and discontent will eventually surface on blogs. The web merely captures what we already do, so trying to contain the spread of your true self is fruitless. Be yourself online. Anyone who won't hire you because of who you truly are is someone you do not want to work for in the first place. Read my full post on this topic from last year: http://www.robbyslaughter.com/blog/?2008-09-26 @robbyslaughter While this seems like sound advice, it is based on a world in which their are private lives. Your warning is not to never partake in racy photos, but simply to ensure they do not appear on the web.

This is fallacy. One should assume that all pictures taken in public places will eventually find their way onto Facebook. All stories of wrath and discontent will eventually surface on blogs. The web merely captures what we already do, so trying to contain the spread of your true self is fruitless.

Be yourself online. Anyone who won’t hire you because of who you truly are is someone you do not want to work for in the first place.

Read my full post on this topic from last year:

http://www.robbyslaughter.com/blog/?2008-09-26

@robbyslaughter

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