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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on 70% of Employers Have Rejected Applicants Over Online Info]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/01/28/happy-data-privacy-day-70-of-job-applicants-rejected-over-onli/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/01/28/happy-data-privacy-day-70-of-job-applicants-rejected-over-onli/</guid><description><![CDATA[Your headline misstates the data.  It is not that 70% of job seekers (applicants) are rejected for online behavior, but that 70% of employers have rejected at least one applicant for that reason.  That might translate to only 5% of job seekers -- it might translate to 90%.  We don't know, because the study didn't publish that figure.  Your headline should be "70% of employers reject applicants over online info."]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jake]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 28th 2010 4:01PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on 70% of Employers Have Rejected Applicants Over Online Info]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/01/28/happy-data-privacy-day-70-of-job-applicants-rejected-over-onli/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/01/28/happy-data-privacy-day-70-of-job-applicants-rejected-over-onli/</guid><description><![CDATA[Network is very strong, and we have to admit that sometimes our inadvertently word, may be popular online, it is likely to create a lot of trouble for himself.<br>let's follow the rules make internet more beauty]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[yaohongyan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 29th 2010 6:31AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on 70% of Employers Have Rejected Applicants Over Online Info]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/01/28/happy-data-privacy-day-70-of-job-applicants-rejected-over-onli/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/01/28/happy-data-privacy-day-70-of-job-applicants-rejected-over-onli/</guid><description><![CDATA[People shouldn't have to be careful about everything they do in case an employer sees it. Isn't there some sort of anti-discrimination law to prevent this?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sean]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 29th 2010 10:24AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on 70% of Employers Have Rejected Applicants Over Online Info]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/01/28/happy-data-privacy-day-70-of-job-applicants-rejected-over-onli/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/01/28/happy-data-privacy-day-70-of-job-applicants-rejected-over-onli/</guid><description><![CDATA[Sean, It's not discrimination. Just don't say or do anything you wouldn't want a future boss to see or hear about.  It's simple!  Be the kind of person offline and online that is respectable and you won't have to worry want ANYONE thinks of you!   <br><br>krissy knox :)<br>visit my main blog: <a href="http://sometimesithink-krissy.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">http://sometimesithink-krissy.blogspot.com</a><br>connect with me on Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/iamkrissy" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/iamkrissy</a>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[krissy knox]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 30th 2010 9:58PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on 70% of Employers Have Rejected Applicants Over Online Info]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/01/28/happy-data-privacy-day-70-of-job-applicants-rejected-over-onli/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/01/28/happy-data-privacy-day-70-of-job-applicants-rejected-over-onli/</guid><description><![CDATA[We're just in a holding pattern until the majority of management positions are held by Millennials. Once that happens, online behavior generally won't matter anymore. Members of the Millennial Generation are quickly and steadily losing their capacity to experience shame. For better or worse, that basically means that we simply don't care what other people think of our online behavior. It's only going to get more prevalent from here. Though in the long run, I'm not positive that's a bad thing. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jan 29th 2010 4:21PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on 70% of Employers Have Rejected Applicants Over Online Info]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/01/28/happy-data-privacy-day-70-of-job-applicants-rejected-over-onli/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/01/28/happy-data-privacy-day-70-of-job-applicants-rejected-over-onli/</guid><description><![CDATA[It seems to me that the period in which one's private life was unknown by one's employer has been recent and short. In most times in history, people worked close to home and their employer (if they had one) was probably their neighbor. It's only probably been since the Industrial Revolution that work life became so separated from home life. But even in more recent times like the 50s and 60s, businessmen were expected to have wives who all socialized together and reputation was so important. I'm sure there are even better examples of this.<br><br>So really the main difference now is that the village is bigger and the employer is more faceless to the employee. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[gail]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 1st 2010 3:12AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on 70% of Employers Have Rejected Applicants Over Online Info]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/01/28/happy-data-privacy-day-70-of-job-applicants-rejected-over-onli/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/01/28/happy-data-privacy-day-70-of-job-applicants-rejected-over-onli/</guid><description><![CDATA[Do potential employees get to do background checks on their potential new bosses? Check out the company? Talk to the person they are replacing to find out what it is like to work there? Find out how the company is REALLY doing? <br><br>Nope. <br><br>This is another example of corporations sticking their noses where they dont belong. Employees get the shaft as always, and HR folks keep up the good work. Maybe you should start shadowing your employees? Maybe you can take some time out of work and start going through potential employees garbage and start stalking them. Do HR employees have nothing to do other than sticking their noses where they dont belong? You all sound like stalkers. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[paul]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 1st 2010 9:41AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on 70% of Employers Have Rejected Applicants Over Online Info]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2010/01/28/happy-data-privacy-day-70-of-job-applicants-rejected-over-onli/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2010/01/28/happy-data-privacy-day-70-of-job-applicants-rejected-over-onli/</guid><description><![CDATA[Well, people can just adjust their privacy settings in social networking sites so that others can't just poke their noses in other people's business. For those who haven't touched their settings and predict that they might lose their job or not get hired, then I adjust they hire Reputec. My brother had this far too personal picture of him with another girl before and he does not want his present wife to see it. So he hired Reputec and they got rid of the picture for him. They also generated a lot of positive content so that when somebody types his name on Google, the good ones come up.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[tendoctor]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Feb 11th 2010 9:22AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>