Monday, November 28, 2011

Social Media - Screening applicants

Reppler conducted a study over 300 workers on hiring processes in different companys and the result is clear: over 90% of recruiters use social media to screen applicants.

What do you think? Do you have any picture that your boss shouldn't see? Maybe some of you are thinking about cleaning up your profiles so I'll give you an advice my grandmother used to tell me.

Everybody has something ashamed, it is normal.


So if you're thinking of making a white profile, remember that recruiters suspect about white profiles. Keeping some pictures with friends in bars, practicing sport, etc... will help you to make your profile more trustable although it's not.
Just think on the kind of things you'd like to show and upload them, but after a clean up.

Here it is the original survey result:

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