Beamer wrote on Dec 18, 2012, 17:47:
Creston wrote on Dec 18, 2012, 17:39:
NegaDeath wrote on Dec 18, 2012, 12:03:
But if you don't get on facebook your an antisocial human being with potential psychopath tendencies who will never be able to get a job or communicate with a friend ever again. Submit citizen. SUBMIT!
When did you turn into Beamer?
Creston
No one has ever made a good argument against this, other than "facebook is stupid!" or "but I'm qualified!"
Again, simple fact of life: recruiters will google you, look at you on linkedin, and look at you on Facebook. When they have thousands of equally qualified applicants they'll go with the person that looks like they fit the culture. If there is nothing to judge the person by, that person will be skipped.
Corporations hate hate hate social networks with a fucking passion. Because their employees get into stupid shit on Facebook, or say shit on there about the company that gets the company into trouble with investors, and it requires them to create policies to deal with social networks, and to constantly constantly remind their employees NOT to say stupid shit on social networks, etc.
And yet you somehow seem to believe in this utterly insane notion that if someone is not on Facebook, a company won't hire that person.
Do companies use someone's facebook profile, if the person has one? Of course they do. But do they NOT hire people who are not on facebook? Seriously, if you believe this, you are either insane or just so convinced that your own fantasies are reality that you make Tom Cruise look normal.
I work in a support department with 9 people in this office, 19 of them throughout the country. I asked them who is on Facebook. 11 of them are, 8 of them aren't. (heavily skewed towards the girls. All 6 of them are on Facebook)
I guess the company was just going to ignore those 8 people and never give them a job, huh?
Creston