Comments on: Using Social Media DOESN’T Damage Your Job Prospects

By: Matt Chatterley

Matt Chatterley — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:36:53 +0000

@Hazel – it’s no more dogmatic than the opposing argument, often touted in the media – that “Social media IS harmful to..”, etc.

Of course, it could. If the internet is plastered with nothing more than pictures of your drunken antics and indiscrections, I could imagine that being quite damaging (mind you, as we approach a point where there is probably one p*ssed-up photo of most of us out there, less so?)

It’s all dependant on context, although the practice of googling new employees is widespread (and has been for a long time, I would say). We certainly search for information about anyone we will be doing business with (clients included), too.

By: Hazel Edmunds

Hazel Edmunds — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:46:44 +0000

That title is a dogmatic statement – it DOESN’T harm your job prospects. I agree that evidence of online interaction, whether on Twitter or any other social media, doesn’t harm someone’s job prospects with KashFlow Accounting Software, but for many employers it COULD. Sure, I know that youthful indiscretions should not influence an employer – but in a time of job shortage they probably will. My advice, for what it’s worth, is to keep the language cool and the pictures discrete.

By: John Donnelly

John Donnelly — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:29:59 +0000

“you have a real interest in the internet and being involved with technology in your personal life as well as your professional life.”

Conversely, that describes me to a T and yet, I’ve never even been to the Twitter website…

John