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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We routinely Google our candidates. Do I care about their personal lives? Not at all. But I need to know they have the common sense and judgment to control their online presence. For example, we work with government customers; I would be very wary of a candidates with a ton of visible and inflammatory political opinions (regardless what side they are on). Especially since a customer could easily find it and attribute it to my company and our brand.[/quote]

If the role is public facing and your employee's persona can hurt the business then it's likely going to be a part of hiring process.  But for a LOT of jobs it's completely irrelevant what an employee is doing after work, and employers or hiring managers being so invasive should be seen as a flaw in our workplace labor practices.

I am certain that there will be some major law changes going forward and it may become illegal for the employers of non-public facing employees to discriminate.  You cannot demand every accountant, IT person, lunch cafeteria worker or a janitor to create online presence and spill out their personal lives for you to browse, and you cannot discriminate against them based on their political or religious beliefs or family status or sexual lives, etc.   If we allow this to happen this means that employer OWNS you and you are nothing but a slave because they get to control your ENTIRE LIFE outside of working hours.

The pendulum will swing back and it won't be pretty.  [/quote]

This was my post. To be clear, we see it as a good thing when someone has little to no public online presence. My own social media accounts are all private. I don’t care what people are doing outside of work (as I said).[/quote]

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