What role will social media play in tomorrow’s job search? Hiring? Firing?

Jobs. It is the reason why we go to school at all; so that we can get qualified enough to attempt to achieve a career if our choosing and make something of ourselves. Not just careers, but even lower level jobs, those jobs we take as teens or University students to get some extra side money require proving to employers that we fit the job description.

Many factors come into consideration when employers are choosing the next bunch of potential workers for the jobs offered. What are their past work experiences? What references do they have? Have they committed any crimes? What skills do they bring to the table that will be beneficial to this company? But it seems like the most important factor employers start to search annoyingly in potential employees is, how are they like as a person? (aka what is your life story and is there anything about you that should worry me?)

It seems like employers these days really want to find out every bit of detail from you down to your personal life to make sure you don’t possess a certain personality that will affect the company. There has always been a history of employees getting fired (aside from contract expiration) due to incompetence, unprofessionalism, in other words, cuz he/she fucked up. But if you as me, there is no true guaranteed way to determine who someone truly is because we all have our flaws, we all have our closet skeletons so it would seem unfair to judge someone based on just pointing out every imperfection they have. Regardless, employers want employees they can trust and living in the internet era it has become so much easier to recruit promising workers. Now for the money shot, the big boy, the question of the day, where does social media play into all this? into hiring?

Social Media comes into everything these days. We live in the digital, internet (we can get any piece of info we want in a second) era. This has made it easy for employers to not only reach out to others about job opportunities but to also find out the backgrounds of the people they are considering as their next potential employees. Employers these days no longer look at just your references, past experiences, job history, portfolios (depending on the job). Now employers google everyone because if you have social media of any kind, it is very easy to find you once they have your name.

What you do in Social Media now determines whether or not you get fired and if you have a job, whether or not you get fired. Whether you like it or not, employers now have 24/7 checks on us and if you do weird, illegal or offensive shit online (ie too much drinking, swearing, talking shit about the very people you work for) you’re fucked.

Also, if you have a Criminal record or have committed a crime that ended up on the media, you’re screwed because articles on the internet never go away. In a way, the internet is now our inescapable permanent record.

One example is 2 years ago when a guy named Derrick Gharabighi took nutella waffle samples at a Costco, an old man (who wanted some) said something to him and he decided to punch out the old man. He got off easy in terms of his sentence but his story is now plastered all over the internet. Who will hire him now? Irony was on his instagram he said he was a future nurse…pfft hahahahahahaha not anymore!

The following link will explain it better than I do:

Another example is the piece of shit known as Brock Turner. In case you guys forgot, he’s the guy who fingered an unconscious girl behind a dumpster while drunk, got caught and then was charged for sexual assault (so to speak). His parents trying to defend their son was also hilarious yet just sad. I don’t know what exactly the verdict was but the guy is fucked now. Who’s going to hire him? Who will want to work with him? Just google his name and you’ll know his story. In fact, here’s a link to a better description of what happened:

So in conclusion, the internet is our Permanent Record, we’re fucked and now Big Brother is officially watching us.

Good luck…idiots!