Comments on: Using Social Media DOESN'T Damage Your Job Prospects http://www.kashflow.com/blog/using-social-media-doesnt-damage-your-job-prospects/ Tue, 29 May 2012 15:42:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Matt Chatterley http://www.kashflow.com/blog/using-social-media-doesnt-damage-your-job-prospects/#comment-4978 Matt Chatterley Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:36:53 +0000 http://www.kashflow.com/?p=1746#comment-4978 @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. @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 http://www.kashflow.com/blog/using-social-media-doesnt-damage-your-job-prospects/#comment-4977 Hazel Edmunds Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:46:44 +0000 http://www.kashflow.com/?p=1746#comment-4977 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. 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 http://www.kashflow.com/blog/using-social-media-doesnt-damage-your-job-prospects/#comment-4976 John Donnelly Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:29:59 +0000 http://www.kashflow.com/?p=1746#comment-4976 "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 “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

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