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By Alison Doyle, About.com Guide to Job Searching since 1998

Are You Concerned About Posting Personal Information Online?

Sunday April 2, 2006
Employers have been known to scour the web for information about job applicants. Are you concerned about a prospective employer finding personal information about you online?
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October 1, 2009 at 10:24 am
(1) phydaystaipsy says:

Hi

I’ve looked a trailer for the “2012″. I was interested in this theme.
Please advise me a good site on this topic.
And what do you think about the end of the world 2012.

Thanks.

October 20, 2009 at 3:09 am
(2) Gina Walker says:

I’m personally very paranoid about showing my information so all personal info, experiences, opinions are available only to my friends. Because of the very good privacy control settings of social networking sites (ie. multiply and facebook), I don’t have to worry about having an employer find out about me.

However, I noticed that I may be the only one conscious about this among my peers. My colleagues and friends all blog about everything and anything to everybody, including love life, frustrations, and what-nots. I even have friends who publish status messages about them being frustrated at work, even though the boss is on their ym list!

Knowing this, recruitment companies can definitely find out a lot about most jobseekers via the internet.

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