Should my resume include myspace profile?
Posted June 15, 2006 10:58 PM
NYT says no:
"Many companies that recruit on college campuses have been using search engines like Google and Yahoo to conduct background checks on seniors looking for their first job. But now, college career counselors and other experts say, some recruiters are looking up applicants on social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, Xanga and Friendster, where college students often post risqué or teasing photographs and provocative comments about drinking, recreational drug use and sexual exploits in what some mistakenly believe is relative privacy."For Some, Online Persona Undermines a Résumé
but Lici says Hell yeah!:
"a MySpace page is like an anti-resume. So just be prepared for whatever company you're interviewing with to see the slutty ho pics of yourself you took late one night, to have whatever song is on your page have its coolness factor dissected, in fact everything you have on your page will be dissected. Not because we care, but because you are our afternoon entertainment, a corporate 15 minutes of fame if you will. So mostly it could be a bad thing. But for little Blake or Preston, well he was lucky enough to have passed the screening process."Myspace... helping kids get interviews since 2003