The Vinculum Business, Management and Communication for the 21st Century

Face(book) Value

Last Saturday, we presented a case documentation that exhibits the use of new social media by different Philippine-based organizations to promote their products and services or to perform their functions in general. One of the organizations we interviewed has been using Facebook to screen and hire prospective employees. Now that’s a wake-up call for me to do a Facebook general cleaning. Haha. But I do have rather civil and cultured content on my social networking accounts so the article doesn’t pose so much threat to me. Anyway, I was browsing Yahoo! News when I stumbled upon this article:

Job hunting? Take those wild party pics off Facebook

My Facebook Profile

Man, the Facebook -as-a-recruitment-tool is slowly penetrating reality! Anyway, here are some tips provided by the article:

1. Do not post provocative or “inappropriate photographs or information” or content about drinking or using drugs.
2. Do not badmouth a previous employer, co-workers or clients.
3. Do not exhibit poor communication skills.
4. Do not make discriminatory comments.
5. Do not lie about qualifications.
6. Do not share confidential information about a previous employer.

In short, clean up your mess or just be a civil netizen before doing the job hunt. On the other hand, employers say that Facebook or other social networking accounts are not the sole determiner of an individual’s qualifications for employment. My two cents: Live a clean life in cyberspace and live a clean life in the real world.

And oh, are vanity pictures considered bad content?

The article can be found here.

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