>> Would you hand over your Facebook username and password to a prospective employee?
NO!! Assuming it was the level of hire (junior) that I would ask for his or her password, I’d kick the snotty SOB out of my office so quick his head would be swimming.
(You really don’t get how this works, do you? No wonder there are so many unemployed yutes — I think folks have forgotten HOW to be employed.)
Here’s a hint. Director and VP-level candidates aren’t asked for their Facebook passwords. (At least not at the first interview.)
Dime-a-dozen GenX and Millenial entry-level employees who have an over-inflated sense of their self-worth from too many years of “esteem building” in public schools? Yeah, I’d like to see your facebook, if you don’t mind.
“I’d kick the snotty SOB out of my office so quick his head would be swimming.”
And I would sue you so fast your head would spin. You would spend the next $250,000 and 2 years in litigation only to lose and pay up both from personal and corporate funds. See, piercing the corporate veil is easy when the corporation doesn’t sponsor your bad behavior. You lose the corporate protections once you personally act badly. Both would pay heavily. You wouldn’t be the first to suffer such consequences; just another in a long line of know-it-alls that lose in court.
I guess I don't. It's one thing to request viewing access to someone's page, but username and password? That's ridiculous.
Here’s a hint. Director and VP-level candidates aren’t asked for their Facebook passwords.
How about managers? Team leaders? When will current employees be required to hand over this information? Personal email username/passwords? Internet browser histories?
“”Here’s a hint. Director and VP-level candidates aren’t asked for their Facebook passwords. (At least not at the first interview.)
Executives are asked for their social media accounts and other information to help ensure no issues arise. Executives by law are a different class of employee and held to a different legal standard. You are obviously just a frustrated junior employee only mouthing off. I have serious doubts that you have ever been in a hiring manager’s position outside of a two person company.
Why not have them log in to FB at the interview and step aside so you can browse their profile for a few minutes, and then let them log off? Why should they do the equivalent of giving you a copy of their house key so you can rummage through their house at will?
There aren’t too many Gen-X entry level employees left.