PSA for those seeking (and who might ever be seeking) employment

[zpdiduda]

NPR reported today that surveys show that 1 out of 5 employers look up job applicants on Facebook. Most common reason given: "to see if the potential employee will fit in well with the company".

Friends-lock your posts. And if your public Facebook profile (or LJ profile, for that matter) says that you worship Satan and SpongeBob Squarepants and that you are proud of your vast collection of bunny floggers, you might want to consider changing it.

Comments

[gira.livejournal.com]

I have one professional profile on a professional website. I have one myspace account that is "real", but it is under my childhood name and the info on it is extremely limited because it's for my childhood friends.

Other than that, none of my profiles have anything to do with my legal name.

[zpdiduda.livejournal.com]

I have similar visibility for my real name. I've been using zpdiduda as a screenname for 20 years, though, and some of this usage was long before I really grokked the power of the intarwebs. If one does a thorough google search, it probably would be easy enough to link my "snail" name with zpdiduda.