Um espaço onde as relações interpessoais se intersectam com as profissionais

Imagine que concorre a um emprego fantástico, que reúne o que gosta de fazer a boas condições de trabalho e de remuneração... Imagine agora que, durante o processo de selecção, o recrutador procura o seu nome no Google ou até mesmo num espaço de interacção social, como o MySpace ou o Hi5 (mais célebre entre os utilizadores portugueses)... Isto já acontece entre os empregadores americanos e normalmente os candidatos saem a perder.

A opinião
Online Party Crashers
Published: June 18, 2006

All good things must come to an end, including the chance to post lascivious photographs and diary entries on the Internet without repercussions. A generation that has come of age with blogging, Webcams and social networking sites is waking up to the fact that would-be employers are looking over their shoulders — and adjusting their job offers.
Alan Finder reported in The Times last week that companies have moved from putting applicants' names through Google to checking sites like Facebook and MySpace. There are ethical concerns about corporate officers snooping through registration-only sites designed for students. But the first order of business is for the indiscreet to think twice.
Every generation has its shrinking violets, and plenty of high school and college students still comport themselves with dignity and decorum, but the standards of decency in public behavior have surely changed. Between reality television shows like "The Real World," and "Girls Gone Wild" videos, our culture has sent the message that acting stupid in front of a camera is a way to get attention or even start a career in show business. Many young people think nothing of posting intimate material on the Web, whether it's daily minutiae, personal poems or snapshots of a fraternity beer pong tournament.

in New York Times - Editorial

O artigo
When a Risqué Online Persona Undermines a Chance for a Job
June 11, 2006, Sunday
By ALAN FINDER (NYT); National Desk

When a small consulting company in Chicago was looking to hire a summer intern this month, the company's president went online to check on a promising candidate who had just graduated from the University of Illinois. At Facebook, a popular social networking site, the executive found the candidate's Web...

in New York Times - Archive