GIRS on Facebook

jbrunken

jbrunken

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Well, believe it or not I needed to setup a Facebook account for work purposes.

While I was setting up my profile, I created a "Group" for GIRS.

So, if you happen to have a facebook account or you want to create one (they are free) then click on groups and do a search for "Greater Iowa Reef Society" and you should be able to join the group.

It has links back to the website, so if nothing else it's a good free way to promote the group.

-JB
 
Re: GIRS on Facebook

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10092744#post10092744 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jbrunken
Well, believe it or not I needed to setup a Facebook account for work purposes.
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hell I check all my new hires against face book and my space.... so I can believe it!
 
OHHHHHHHH, I hate it when people do "background" checks on people's public private lives. It's just sad that some people, not always because of them, are judged by what "groups" they are in, the nature of their messeges to their friends. Or pictures that have been taken of them.

That's why everybody should take their facebook private!
 
Well, my involvement with Facebook doesn't have anything to do with background checks. We are looking at building a plugin to work with Facebook.

-JB
 
Yeah, that's all I want is the club seeing pictures of me naked and puking up jagermeister on a bunch of underage girls...

Overanalyzer, what do you look for when you look through sites such as these?
 
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10093917#post10093917 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ryansholl
Yeah, that's all I want is the club seeing pictures of me naked and puking up jagermeister on a bunch of underage girls...

Overanalyzer, what do you look for when you look through sites such as these?
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first it gives you an idea of who they are

second - I am amazed at the number of folks who lie in interviews. examples: we had someone who put down they belonged to club X and on-line they had some statements about never attending meetings, etc. in the interview they said they were thinking of running for office ....different candidate - bragged on-line about how on the current job the time was all spent on working on a candidates election and not working..... finally - my favorite - talked on-line about how they cheated there way through a database class.... so when asked he made up answers which were really really wrong....

third - if their stuff is private it means they are a bit more aware....

nothing too nit picky - but being online does not offer one a sense of privacy that they perceive they have!
 
I agree. If you don't want people to know about you then don't post it on the public internet. I know for a fact that companies...at least our does...spend a lot of money to find good candidates. It is not easy to weed through 100-150 applicants. That is one of the first things I do is to Google them and then go on Iowa courts.com to look at their public record. This is all before I even meet them.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10094729#post10094729 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Bullet
I agree. If you don't want people to know about you then don't post it on the public internet. I know for a fact that companies...at least our does...spend a lot of money to find good candidates. It is not easy to weed through 100-150 applicants. That is one of the first things I do is to Google them and then go on Iowa courts.com to look at their public record. This is all before I even meet them.
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While I agree that doing your homework on a potential candidate is always a really good idea, do you really think that googling them and checking their public record really gives you that good of an indication of who they are, and what kind of a worker they are?

For instance, I just googled myself and found...basically...nothing. I greatly prefer not to have even a small web presence. The less people are able to find out about me, the better. Not that I have anything to hide mind you, but I've been seeing first hand what too much knowledge can do to someone.
 
I personally don't care if someone wants to research me. I have no problem with that.

The problem I have, is when someone bases their opinion on that person solely on an online search.

That's kinda like basing your opinion on someone on an online game. You'll never know the real person until you are able to sit down with them, and actually look them in the face. IMO.
 
I think we are both saying the same thing here. I am just using the scenario when you have a couple hundred applicants for one position. You have to be use everything available to narrow it down to just a few face to face sit downs. Yeah...you may have just passed up the best person just because of a few stupid things they did in the past or because their facebook says they love to sleep in until 10am and party all night long. But it would take forever to sit down with everyone.

Believe me. Some of my best friends would scare me if I did not know them and met them in a dark ally.
 
Whether younger people like it or think its fair, it is a fact of life that your potential future employers are going to research you on the internet. I promise you that our HR folks research the people we are looking to hire. Its not that we solely base our decision on what is out there, but it is definitely one of the factors. We are a professional services firm, where our reputation is very important, and our new hires are sent out as the face of our firm to interact with clients. The impression that they leave goes a long way towards how the client views our service. Why wouldn't we do our research? We are running a business.

If you are drunk, smoking weed and molesting people (or getting molested) in every picture out there, why wouldn't we think that some of that behavior might continue when we send you out of town with coworkers on the firm's dollar? We aren't a bunch of tight a$$es and we definitely like to have fun, but we need to watch out for behavior that crosses the line because it puts our firm and our reputation in harm's way.

Younger people just need to be a little smarter these days in what they post online.
 
The thing is with facebook, you don't get to choose 100% of what you post. Friends can post you in photo albums, Notes, write on others' walls about you. You don't have much control over that, except for "untagging" urself from said postings.

I am very selective in what groups I join, or what I say but like I said if somebody wants to say that I was "wasted and hitting on anything that had 2 legs" then what can I do about that? One night's events, and one persons mouth could dictate whether or not i get an interview? But chances are I wouldn't want to work for a company that based their opinions on somebody else's ideas of me.

I'm mad at the world!
 
OMG, I remember 10 years ago, I was going to school at SWCC. I went with some friends to a party one night, just dog tired after working all day long. Didn't really want to go, but go drug there.

The day after the party, my dad calls me. "So, I heard you got passed out drunk at a party last night."

"Uh, no. I fell asleep on the couch after working all day long. I didn't have anything to drink."

"That's not what I heard."

One jerk who had no idea what was going on, comes in and sees me with my eyes closed on the couch, and just assumed I was passed out drunk.
 
i am in the process of trying to get a job and this thread made me go in and edit my facebook. i wouldnt have thought about it on my own, thanks!
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10096064#post10096064 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by acidlittle
And that's the stuff you can't control! That's my only beef with the background checks on facebook.
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I think you are missing the point .... I've not once ever used facebook or myspace as a be all or end all ...(like that poor teaching student who lost her chance to become a teacher not too long ago)..... it is just one of many pieces....

you just need to be aware!!
 
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