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Why does employer google people's name if he or she consider to hire? - M - 02-28-2013 05:05 PM
For what does employer google people's name in Google search results to find information? If anyone experience, you may explain. What happens if the employer does not hire you?
- Jack - 02-28-2013 05:12 PM
To see what you're into on Facebook twitter etc. like they look for excessive pictures of alcohol any illegal drugs they do it to make sure you're a "Clean" person
- Think - 02-28-2013 05:18 PM
If you have a public social media page (like facebook) it may be telling as if you're a good fit. Plus there are a lot of public records, news reports, arrest reports, lawsuits etc that can be found simply by Google'ing your name.
If they don't hire you based on what they may find - you're probably not going to get a lot of help. Unless you can prove it was based on discrimination, such as your race/sex/disability you're really not going to be able to do anything.
Best of luck!
http://www.thinkdigital.ly
- Jake - 02-28-2013 05:20 PM
Why?, because they are too cheap to pay for an exhaustive background search, just hope you don't share a name with some nut job.
FYI California just passed a law prohibiting employers from requiring their workers to give their social network account passwords.