If applying for jobs, here is a tip

[Mackelroy]

If you are applying for work, make sure all your social media accounts are clean, and free of controversial posts, pics, and such. Petty online bickering in your facebook, or something else, like discussing your illegal weekend activities with your friends, etc, can, and will cost you that good new job. It amazes me, as an employer, what some people have online, while applying for work. I use a woman, who owns a small business, checking the online presence of potential employees, before hiring anyone. Some stuff she finds, blows my mind.

First thought, how do you know its the applicant, lots of people have the same name?

Facebook I guess is the main Killer, I dont do face book, but how do I find out if I have an online Presence?


Or do you ask , do you have a face book account, or any media presence?

If they say yeah, I guess you write it down to find them?

 

[y_p_w]

First thought, how do you know its the applicant, lots of people have the same name?

Facebook I guess is the main Killer, I dont do face book, but how do I find out if I have an online Presence?

The first thing they do is ask with a background check. And a lot of people don't think of it being anything but normal and provide it. I suppose they will check photos to see if it's that person, although when I've submitted to checks I don't recall anything with my photo sent to the service provider. Maybe the company had my photo for my badge, but I wasn't told about it. And in any case often the check happens before employment starts.

The last time I submitted to a background check, I actually started before the background was started. They could have theoretically terminated it based on the check.

 

[Pablo]

True story.

My ex girlfriend from high school happened to see my oldest sister in Miami Beach and asked about me.
I’m surprised they even recognized each other after 30+ years.

My oldest sister went to high school with her oldest brother.
My brother went to high school with her brother.

Dumb dumb sister gives her my cellphone number and out of the blue ex GF calls me cause I wasn’t on social media and she was very interested in interrogating me to see how my life has turned out. There’s a good reason I stay off TRASH social media.

10:1 she got fat.

 

[Pew]

Immediate no hire for person bringing their parent(s) to an interview.

I understand for a 16 year old and at Chick fil A or a retail supermarket job, not in a professional work environment type job.

Gen z in 2025 (article date) is 13-28 years old. Given the events that happened during their middle-highschool-young adult age, I am not shocked, but rather interested in seeing how this impacted their development compared to the historical normal since there are studies out that show a 3-year stunt in educational and social development.

 

[y_p_w]

What???

My avatar is the wife and I snowmobiling.

Did you get a private message from a mod? Mine was a question as to whether or not I took the photo myself, which was affirmative.

 

[y_p_w]

There are specific categories you can not use for the basis of discrimination. I could be wrong, but I don't think political beliefs are included in those categories. At least in my state.

DC has "political affiliation" as part of a protected class. Not sure if it's ever been tested before. But it doesn't include employment. It would tough to do that in a place like DC where being likeminded poetically might be important in terms of employment for certain jobs.

https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/sections/2-1402.21​

(a) General. — It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice to do any of the following acts, wholly or partially for a discriminatory reason based on the actual or perceived: race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, familial status, family responsibilities, disability, matriculation, political affiliation, source of income, sealed eviction record, status as a victim of an intrafamily offense, place of residence or business, or homeless status of any individual:​

 

[Pablo]

Gen z in 2025 (article date) is 13-28 years old. Given the events that happened during their middle-highschool-young adult age, I am not shocked, but rather interested in seeing how this impacted their development compared to the historical normal since there are studies out that show a 3-year stunt in educational and social development.

You know how lame that sounds? Very. I get that the idiotic shutdown was hard on younger people, but math alone would say someone 21+ when covid hit was a grown ass person. Regardless - compared to WWII generation (example)?

Dragging parents (willing) to help adults with jobs? Yeah, lame. We are toast. Done.

 

[02SE]

You know how lame that sounds? Very. I get that the idiotic shutdown was hard on younger people, but math alone would say someone 21+ when covid hit was a grown ass person. Regardless - compared to WWII generation (example)?

Dragging parents (willing) to help adults with jobs? Yeah, lame. We are toast. Done.

Maybe mommy and daddy just want to know if the employer will be furnishing a binky for junior.

 

[Boomer]

Hall, a belated reply. The only folks in the world that I care enough about to hear things from their lives are my son, his wife and two grandsons. All my life I went with out this OVERLOAD of information from others and I certainly don't miss it now. Personally, I have been amazed and shocked by how much people want to give up their privacy by posting online. It can even be dangerous...posting pictures of children, showing vacation dates, etc. If I want to contact a friend, I can phone or text or send an email........targeted recipient. I am always astounded by folks in restaurants taking picture of their food and sending out on social media. No offense. I don't want to know what you had for dinner.

Just a personal feeling.

 

[Pablo]

Hall, a belated reply. The only folks in the world that I care enough about to hear things from their lives are my son, his wife and two grandsons. All my life I went with out this OVERLOAD of information from others and I certainly don't miss it now. Personally, I have been amazed and shocked by how much people want to give up their privacy by posting online. It can even be dangerous...posting pictures of children, showing vacation dates, etc. If I want to contact a friend, I can phone or text or send an email........targeted recipient. I am always astounded by folks in restaurants taking picture of their food and sending out on social media. No offense. I don't want to know what you had for dinner.

Just a personal feeling.

Posting online alone in a controlled manner doesn't "give up privacy"...........well you just posted here. What privacy didn't you share? We all learned something about you. I post pictures of my chow here. and don't fear anything about loss of privacy in doing so.

Phone, text, email..............those aren't really private either.

I do agree on kids, dates of events, etc. Things that can and will be used nefariously like pics of driveway oil stains.

 

[Pew]

You know how lame that sounds? Very. I get that the idiotic shutdown was hard on younger people, but math alone would say someone 21+ when covid hit was a grown ass person. Regardless - compared to WWII generation (example)?

Dragging parents (willing) to help adults with jobs? Yeah, lame. We are toast. Done.

Yes 21+ at that time sure they should do it themselves by now.

A 16 year old at that time with two years of little to no social contact with anybody else outside of their family, yea they may need some help. Not "let your failure of helicopter parents do everything for you" but considering the powers-that-be have axed education where "home ec" things like we were taught in regards to resumes and jobs do not exist anymore.

I don't care for the article anyways, they interviewed like 800 kids in an unknown region. That's barely a graduating class here; not to mention the questions are pretty generic. Like: "did you parents go to the interview with you." Of course...they had to drop their kid off for the interview.

I have not once heard or seen anything like this happening anyways so I'm treating it as rage bait for people who want to feel superior.

Ww2 generation, other than being like 80 years apart, didn't shutter kids inside for a few years. Instead 60% of the WW2 personnel were drafted anyways so even then the only ones who matter for that generation were the veterans anyways.

 

[Patman]

No offense. I don't want to know what you had for dinner.

We have a very popular thread right here in our food section where we all share what we’re eating. As crazy as it sounds it’s quite interesting! Everyone loves to make fun of me because I have the diet of a 12 year old

 

[TimeFlies]

So, is it a red flag if one doesn't have FB, Insta etc accounts and never had them?

Not in my opinion, I actually like that.

 

[TimeFlies]

Do you ask them to make friends to see private posts, or are these based on public posts? If they are dumb enough to post publicly then they probably aren't going to be a value add.

Public only.

 

[TimeFlies]

What if your boss looked and no FB similar to me with zero social media ?

If she doesn't find anything, then I'm simply told, nothing found.

 

[TimeFlies]

First thought, how do you know its the applicant, lots of people have the same name?

Facebook I guess is the main Killer, I dont do face book, but how do I find out if I have an online Presence?


Or do you ask , do you have a face book account, or any media presence?

If they say yeah, I guess you write it down to find them?

I don't do anything myself, I hire a woman, who owns her own small business. I take a picture of the resume, text it to her, and she calls me after she looks, and tells me what she found, or didn't find. She bills me $75 each, even if she finds nothing.

 

[TimeFlies]

Did you get a private message from a mod? Mine was a question as to whether or not I took the photo myself, which was affirmative.

Nope.
And no, my best friend took it, of us, on a snowmobile trip.

 

[y_p_w]

Not in my opinion, I actually like that.

The primary issue with many employers (or potential employers) is whether or not someone is going to embarrass the company or where someone might find something questionable about an employee and pressure them to fire said employee.

I never really got into any of the major social media sites. And if I did I might have just had an account to read when one can't browse without an account. But my reading is that they're often also looking for a web presence, mentions in news articles, etc.

This was the company that did my last background check. I believe that "Keywords" refers to specific words that an employer or potential employers has given to look for. As for images with weapons, I'm thinking that someone just going target shooting is one thing, but being dressed like Rambo and pointing firearms randomly might be an issue. But what's more likely to happen is that these things get flagged and any images or comments forwarded to the employer to be the judge of whether or not it's disqualifying. They also serve as a shield where they don't forward "protected information" that the employer isn't allowed to consider by law.

https://www.foley.io/articles/how-does-social-media-monitoring-in-background-checks-work​

Regarding the compliance piece: When presenting results, we always redact protected class information, which is why you don't want to do it yourself (because you can't "un-see" protected class information).​

 

[TimeFlies]

The primary issue with many employers (or potential employers) is whether or not someone is going to embarrass the company or where someone might find something questionable about an employee and pressure them to fire said employee.

I never really got into any of the major social media sites. And if I did I might have just had an account to read when one can't browse without an account. But my reading is that they're often also looking for a web presence, mentions in news articles, etc.

This was the company that did my last background check. I believe that "Keywords" refers to specific words that an employer or potential employers has given to look for. As for images with weapons, I'm thinking that someone just going target shooting is one thing, but being dressed like Rambo and pointing firearms randomly might be an issue. But what's more likely to happen is that these things get flagged and any images or comments forwarded to the employer to be the judge of whether or not it's disqualifying. They also serve as a shield where they don't forward "protected information" that the employer isn't allowed to consider by law.

https://www.foley.io/articles/how-does-social-media-monitoring-in-background-checks-work​

Regarding the compliance piece: When presenting results, we always redact protected class information, which is why you don't want to do it yourself (because you can't "un-see" protected class information).​

Once someone is hired, I don't look into them again.