Posted on 05/14/2009 11:55:21 AM PDT by xtinct
As employers make Google searches a routine part of the hiring process, college newspapers are seeing an increase in the number of alumni looking to have their names removed from articles they wrote or were quoted in during their college years.
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that a growing number of papers are being drawn into controversy about whether to grant alumni requests to rewrite a paper's historical record because certain articles or comments could make finding a job difficult or because they could create difficulties and conflicts of interest in the future.
The trend is just one of many products of a digital era in which everything is archived, even when those who create content are often unaware of the consequences.
(Excerpt) Read more at politicsdaily.com ...
Warnings have been out for years about putting personal information on the Internet.
Of all the young people out there, college students have been warned routinely.
Sniff... no one told them that the best jobs are had with conservative businesses... who don't necessarily... except for sh*ts n giggles want to see their employee in Girls Gone Wild or on a radical revolutionary blog... or on the DU or Daily Kos or Huffie...
Miss Wet T-shirt of state U.
You mean businesses read all the hateful, neo-marxist rants about how much you hate business and profit and don’t want to hire you?
Our son has been in college and grad school. Of course he’s on the networking sites like facebook, but we’ve stressed and stressed and stressed again...never write or post anything that you wouldn’t want the world to see. Never send an email to anyone that says something in it that you wouldn’t want to see posted on the front page of the newspaper, and never make a post on a forum that could in any way be misconstrued.
I’ve seen some of the college kid’s pages and they use language that would make a sailor blush. Then they post pictures of themselves in drunken states, or compromised situations. Employers check facebook pages, and myspace pages, I knew that, but I’d never heard this angle before of trying to change article content. That’s pretty interesting.
All of my writing for college newspapers was done under a pseudonym. Search away.
As a lifelong underachiever, I have left no trail.
a friend of mine who works in HR tells me that his company sent him to a conference where this was discussed. His company’s attorneys have specifically told them NOT to go Googling any potential new hires, because if it surfaces later on that such info played a role in the decision not to hire, a torrent of litigation will surely follow. (looks like its becoming a hot new profit center for members of the tort bar)
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