Why does employer google people's name if he or she consider to hire?

[M]

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]

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]

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]

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.