It's not awful by the way, awesome game, I'm just using it as an example.
lol. You edited in a disclaimer
But I don't blame you if the below happens. Harsh
Myspace profile? It could cost you your next job
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lol. You edited in a disclaimer
But I don't blame you if the below happens. Harsh
lol. You edited in a disclaimer
But I don't blame you if the below happens. Harsh
I should also point out it wasn't at my company it happened, it was cases I read about in the mainstream news.
There was also one slightly less gray aread one where a woman was fired for posting a picture on her blog of her posing in her work uniform. They weren't particularly bad pictures, certainly nothing provokative. But she was still fired for them.
Also the disclaimer wasn't edited on. And it IS a good game.
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It's actually something I'm quite careful of, not so much the personal details available but what I say about things. I work in the gaming industry and as such I may talk about games or gaming on my site, but I won't give opinions on it. If I were to post saying for instance that I thought Call of Duty 4 was the most awful game ever released, and we were doing a promotion for it, I would possibly end up in trouble at work. There have been cases fairly recently of people being fired on the spot for gross misconduct after saying bad things about the fields their company works in, not even the company itself, just the field, on their personal blog.
It's not awful by the way, awesome game, I'm just using it as an example.
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I would never use my real surname on any of those site ,seems a bit daft to really 
I wouldn't want my employers seeing what I get upto in my spare time on random drunken nights out/holidays so I make my profile private. I also interview candidates at work and have been asked not to look at their myspace/facebook if available as the law states everyone should get a fair chance therefore it wouldn't be fair to be prejudiced ahead of the interview.
Hehe, while my facebook account is locked down so only my contacts can access it and only certain ones get the full details etc. My boss is one of my facebook contacts... Again I don't put anything on there... at all really, asside from what music I listen to and a link to my blog.
Music is done automatically via last.fm.
Music is done automatically via last.fm.
I would hate it if I was searched for prior to a job interview; not because of what they'd seen on my profile, but what about on someone with the same name? An interviewer may have no idea what I look like etc, so it could be unfair and unreliable.
Certainly, it's perhaps worth a look but I would use it to only help form my opinion after interview, but I imagine you'd get enough information from a decent interview to not need to rely on someone's social network profile.
My MySpace is now in the bin after Year 11's discovered it last year, and my Facebook is private. I do have pupils on there, who can only see my limited profile. I see no problem with this, they'd learn as much about me seeing me in the street or by asking the questions I've already answered on Facebook anyway.
Certainly, it's perhaps worth a look but I would use it to only help form my opinion after interview, but I imagine you'd get enough information from a decent interview to not need to rely on someone's social network profile.
My MySpace is now in the bin after Year 11's discovered it last year, and my Facebook is private. I do have pupils on there, who can only see my limited profile. I see no problem with this, they'd learn as much about me seeing me in the street or by asking the questions I've already answered on Facebook anyway.
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CRB checks dont list sexual fetishes.
they do if your fetish is bicycles.
I would never use my real surname on any of those site ,seems a bit daft to really
oi! kevin romperstomer, i'll see you in my office tomorrow morning at 9am SHARP!
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sounds like BS to me im sure he could have taken them to an industrial tribunal for that and would have won easily
I know a guy that did that too. Also about Argos. Don't think he got fired, but he did get in serious trouble for it.
All of my social networking sites are limited access, but even within that, there's nothing on them that an employer would care about anyway. I don't post drunken photos of myself, because they're always awful photos, and I don't see the point in uploading awful photos of yourself for the world to see.
It's annoying on facebook that other people can post pics of you and it gets linked to your profile. Even if you don't post anything incriminating, someone else might. I'm sure there's settings to stop that, but it's still annoying.
