Companies are using searches of social media sites when they evaluate candidates for employment. Do you believe that is a fair and logical practice or an invasion of privacy? Support your position.
I believe evaluating candidate using social media searches is an invasion of privacy amongst other personal issues like searching for information in a compromised social media account, or candidates not having a social media account and applicants putting up false qualification on their profile.
From candidate’s picture employers might be able to tell their likely race, approximate age, physical challenges, gender etc. This might color their option towards these job seekers, and if decisions are taken based on these features, it would eliminate the equal employment opportunity and the Civil Right Act of 1964, (which prohibits employers from making hiring decisions based on discrination against race, color, religion, sex, or national origin). Which are the …show more content…
That might send wrong signals to the potential employer as they may think that individual is hiding something, don’t have anything to offer or simply don’t care. Even some people that social median isn’t thing might have social media account and not update them frequently, which leave the information available on those site obsolete or incorrect. Secondly, if these individual are search for social media sites, it is most likely that someone with a similar name shows up, which leaves the employer with no idea about whom they are trying to know about in the first place.
It might hinder what people post on social media, when individual are aware that potential employer research their social media profile, they are less likely to be free and open with their post or tweet but rather, post what they feel these organizations wants to see or read about them.
Under qualified candidates might be enlisted (when they lie about qualifications on their Linked in
I believe evaluating candidate using social media searches is an invasion of privacy amongst other personal issues like searching for information in a compromised social media account, or candidates not having a social media account and applicants putting up false qualification on their profile.
From candidate’s picture employers might be able to tell their likely race, approximate age, physical challenges, gender etc. This might color their option towards these job seekers, and if decisions are taken based on these features, it would eliminate the equal employment opportunity and the Civil Right Act of 1964, (which prohibits employers from making hiring decisions based on discrination against race, color, religion, sex, or national origin). Which are the …show more content…
That might send wrong signals to the potential employer as they may think that individual is hiding something, don’t have anything to offer or simply don’t care. Even some people that social median isn’t thing might have social media account and not update them frequently, which leave the information available on those site obsolete or incorrect. Secondly, if these individual are search for social media sites, it is most likely that someone with a similar name shows up, which leaves the employer with no idea about whom they are trying to know about in the first place.
It might hinder what people post on social media, when individual are aware that potential employer research their social media profile, they are less likely to be free and open with their post or tweet but rather, post what they feel these organizations wants to see or read about them.
Under qualified candidates might be enlisted (when they lie about qualifications on their Linked in