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Article: One-in-Four Hiring Managers Have Used Internet Search Engines to Screen Job Candidates; One-in-Ten Have Used Social Networking Sites, CareerBuilder.com Survey Finds.
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- October 26, 2006
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CHICAGO, Oct. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- You may want to think twice about posting photos from your last toga party or road trip. According to CareerBuilder.com's latest survey, one-in-four hiring managers (26 percent) say they have used Internet search engines to research potential employees. One-in-ten (12 percent) say they have used social networking sites in their candidate screening process. The CareerBuilder.com survey was completed in September 2006 and included 1,150 hiring managers nationwide.
Of those hiring managers who used Internet search engines to research job candidates, 51 percent did not hire the person based on what they found. Of those who used ...