Should Applicants Have Social Media Profiles?

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Should Applicants Have Social Media Profiles?

Interviewers observe hundreds of resumes before they decide to call you in for a job interview. Something about your resume stood out from the pack, and the company decided that you were someone that gained a shot at winning the position. Once they’ve made that decision, the company calls you and schedules an interview.

It is between now and then that you’re most in danger of making a bad first impression. How? By giving access to a social media profile that doesn’t give interviewers a positive reaction.

Most Graduate Social Media Profiles

Social media websites such as Facebook and MySpace are made to be places for you to connect with your friends and share your personal experiences. That is why several younger men and females post photos of themselves having fun with their friends – going out drinking, indicating off their newest bathing suit, or generally making awkward faces at the camera.

Despite the basic privacy settings on these websites, your profiles are made public. Between now and your job interview, the interviewer is going to be preparing queries and trying to learn more about you as a candidate. One of the first things they are going to do is search for your name and sees what comes up. What they’ll see is a profile of you completes with misspellings, unprofessional pictures, and status updates/blog posts that rant about your personal life. These are going to instantly cast you in a negative light, and though they will likely not cancel your interview, they are going to be judging you with increased skepticism.

What Can You Do?

There are many ways for you to handle your social media profiles in order to make them less accessible to interviewers and prying eyes. You should enact these changes long in advance of your interview to make sure that they go into effect right away. You do not require deleting your social media accounts, but you’ll require making few massive changes in case to ensure that your profiles are not going to harm your interview. We’ll discuss how to prepare your social media profiles in the next two blog posts.

Take Away Interview Tips:

  • Prepare your social media profiles long before the interview.

 

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