As an executive recruiter, I have had the opportunity to interview candidates and interview them personally. I believe that the candidate should be able to take a survey about themselves and compare that to their own social media. I also believe that the candidate should be able to take the survey and discuss it with potential employers.
Although it’s not technically illegal, I think it’s important to know that it would be unethical for a company to try to find out a candidate’s social media profile via surveys. It would be unethical because they would be able to use that information to make their hiring decisions without the candidate even knowing what the survey is for.
Most people would be fine with this because they know that the information shared on a candidate’s social media profile is often private and private information. However, for a company to use that information to determine who they wish to hire could be problematic. What a job candidate is sharing on social media in a job application is private information. For someone who is already in a job, these social media profiles are often their first contact with a prospective employer.
It’s not as if there are any “private” social media profiles in which you can’t be followed, or used as a social media tool to be more “visible.” It would only be a concern if the candidate who is hiring shares a personal social media profile on which the employer can see everything he posts as part of the screening process.
The key to success lies in getting the candidate’s name, location, social media profile, and social media image on their profile page. The profile page is called a social media page. So it’s not just about who can tweet about who is doing what. It’s about the candidate’s social media profile, and how they’re responding to his or her tweets.
The company is now trying to determine what the candidates social media image is. They are also trying to determine what the candidates social media profile is so they can decide who they want to hire. The company is trying to determine the candidates social media image by getting their twitter account and their LinkedIn account. Then they are trying to get their Facebook page. Finally, the company is going to send the candidates an email inviting them to a video presentation explaining their company.
The answer is no. The company is running Twitter in the background and the Twitter account is on the company’s website! The same way they made no mistake.
The problem is that the company is doing a bad job of getting the candidates social media accounts. To be fair, they have the ability to do so, but they are doing it in a way that prevents a good use of their data. If you have a social media page on your website that uses their data, it is going to be hard to get it removed from the company’s website.
I agree. The company could certainly use social media to make it easier for the candidates to find out whether or not they’re hired, but that doesn’t mean that the company is using their data to do so.
The reason you can’t get rid of their data is that it’s an account. You can’t wipe out their data, and they can’t wipe out you. If you’ve linked to their social media pages, you’ve linked to their data. You can use their data just as you can use the data from the company’s website.