Stop tweeting against your bosses, your employer has a check on you
By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, 25 August 2010, 15:13 IST   |    39 Comments
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Stop tweeting against your bosses, your employer has a check on you
Bangalore: People who share any kind of opinion about their employers or the organization in which they are working could land their career at stake. Many organizations are going online to have a pre-employment check by assessing their Facebook, Twitter, Orkut, MySpace and LinkedIn profiles. As a part of assessing an employee's profile, companies are hiring third party verification agencies to see the presence of a prospective employee in the digital world, reports Shilpa Phadnis & Mini Joseph Tejaswi from Times of India. Employees might land to trouble while posting information about companies on their social networking sites. "Hiring is a very subjective process, and HR managers have the freedom to hire or reject a candidate based on his or her online social networking behavior," said Nandita Gurjar, Group Head (HR), Infosys Technologies. Recruiters go through the LinkedIn profiles while hiring employees in the middle senior management level. "It started with IT hiring, but is spreading to other industry verticals," says Madan Padaki, CEO of skill assessment firm MeriTrack. Ajay Trehan, Founder and CEO of background screening firm Authbridge, says one of his clients rejected a candidate for a director's position because they found a discrepancy in his graduation year mentioned in the company records and on LinkedIn. "When we did a due diligence, we found that he had failed in 1979 but he had not revealed that to our client," says Trehan. In order to have a check on employee's profile is soon going to be a part of general hiring process in many companies. Recruiters of many companies feel that such an initiative is very necessary.