Recruitment 2020
A project with the Guardian and the The Recruitment & Employment Confederation
"privacy"
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- A world without Google | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited Google-stalking: Thanks to Google, it's not only easy, but perfectly acceptable to rummage around in the lives of ex-boyfriends, upcoming blind dates, long-lost acquaintances and perfect strangers. from : duncanoleary 29th November 2006
- The Long Tail: Remember when diaries were secret? 'Something big changed over the past decade as a long trend of diminished privacy suddenly flipped to radical transparency...Today, that diary has become a MySpace page and the secret crush is the guy draped over the keg on her Facebook gallery' from : duncanoleary 4th December 2006
- On the Internet, everybody knows you're a dog. - By Michael Kinsley - Slate Magazine "anonymity does not actually seem to interest many of the Web's most devoted users. They are the ones who start their own sites, or sign up for MySpace, or submit videos to YouTube. Quite the opposite: The most successful Web sites seem to be those where people can abandon anonymity and use the Internet to stake their claims as unique individuals." from : duncanoleary 4th December 2006
- Scatterbox by Steven Silvers: Transparent Generation realizes downside to growing up online. "Call them The Transparent Generation. They're the first true children of the hyperconnected information age, and they were using the Internet before they could write cursive. Now they're starting to graduate college, ready to launch their careers as responsible, tax-paying young adults. And many of them are waking up to a nagging concern about their online trail... all created way they ever thought they might be Googled by a potential boss." from : duncanoleary 4th December 2006
- PR students: you are what you blog Interesting take on the privacy/transparency question around the internet and people's pasts. This one suggests that companies may make a virtue of this - giving individuals opportunities to create a 'google-trail' of positive achievements link to company brands. from : duncanoleary 4th December 2006
- Recruiters search online for info on candidates More than three-fourths of executive recruiters surveyed said that they routinely use search engines like Google and Yahoo! to learn more about candidates. "Even more significant, 35 percent said they have eliminated a candidate from consideration based on information discovered online." from : duncanoleary 18th December 2006