{"id":9989,"date":"2011-06-23T09:30:59","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T13:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=9989"},"modified":"2011-08-09T11:23:12","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T15:23:12","slug":"your-social-media-reputation-and-your-future-employment-prospects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/06\/23\/your-social-media-reputation-and-your-future-employment-prospects\/","title":{"rendered":"Your social media reputation and your future employment prospects"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Greaves<\/a> posted this link<\/a>, which should be a warning to everyone to be (even more) careful about your online reputation:<\/p>\n

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Camille Cacnio, a part-time receptionist at a car dealership, was caught in a 3-second video clip, stealing clothing from a looted store during the Stanley Cup riots.<\/p>\n

She was fired.<\/p>\n

Professional mountain biker Alex Prochazka posed in front of a burning car, while wearing a T-shirt from his sponsor Oakley.<\/p>\n

The sunglass company promptly dropped him.<\/p>\n

Carpenter Connor Mcilvenna declared the riots \u201cawesome\u201d on his Facebook page, and posted several pro-riot status updates, such as \u201catta boy vancity!!! show em how we do it!!!\u201d and \u201cvancouver needed remodeling anyway….\u201d<\/p>\n

RiteTech Construction was listed as his employer on his Facebook profile, and the next morning, Mcilvenna was fired.<\/p>\n

His boss said he was flooded with emails and didn\u2019t want the company\u2019s reputation linked to the man.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think this will be a turning point in how employers look at social media,\u201d said Peter Eastwood, a partner at Borden Ladner Gervais in Vancouver. \u201cThis is an extremely powerful tool that has potentially enormous and immediate consequences for a business.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is something the early bloggers had to face, that what you post online (or what is posted about you) will be there forever<\/em>. No rational employer is going to offer you a job in future without at the very least running a Google search on you, and there’s already a niche market for employers to explore (doing a deeper search on prospective employees). Background check and personal references? I’m starting to wonder why employers even bother going through the motions any more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chris Greaves posted this link, which should be a warning to everyone to be (even more) careful about your online reputation: Camille Cacnio, a part-time receptionist at a car dealership, was caught in a 3-second video clip, stealing clothing from a looted store during the Stanley Cup riots. She was fired. Professional mountain biker Alex […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,28,15],"tags":[391,328,95,742,593,310],"class_list":["post-9989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-media","category-technology","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-jobs","tag-rioting","tag-socialmedia","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2B7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9989"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10597,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9989\/revisions\/10597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}