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A recruiter could use your MySpace account to get information on you. |
"In the ongoing effort of law firms to identify the best and the brightest, hiring committees would be foolish to ignore the treasure trove of information the Internet offers about prospective associates," says an article on www.law.com.
All one has to do is type in a name and watch as a wealth of information pops up: age, political affiliation, religion, extracurricular activities, educational background, and past work experience among other things. There may even be a post about yesterday's interview with a law firm.
But recruiters must be wary. Not everything on a website is put there by the webmaster. There could be angry friends or jealous coworkers seeking to destroy someone's reputation. One Yale law student with top grades interviewed with 16 law firms but only heard back from four. Confused, she searched around and discovered that she had been the target of negative criticism on a blog.
"Recruiters should pay attention to the mens rea of the potential hire. Postings that were not within the control of the students should be given far less weight in an evaluation of that person's professional character than those that a student clearly put up on his own," states an article on www.law.com.
Blogs also help recruiters discover how potential employees market themselves and how original their ideas are. With this in mind, an article on www.law.com says, "recruiters...realize its potential in...finding new associates who can effectively negotiate an always evolving medium."
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