SUMMARY: The city of Bozeman, Mont. ended a controversial policy of requiring municipal job applicants to provide their usernames and passwords for social-networking sites after it sparked widespread criticism. The city of Bozeman believes we have a responsibility to ensure candidates hired for positions of public trust are subject to a thorough background check," he said. "The extent of our regulation for a candidate's password, username or other Internet information appears to have exceeded that which is acceptable to our community." While job seekers are often warned that recruiters will be looking at their profiles on Facebook and MySpace, it is far more rare to be asked for a login to those sites by a prospective employer. Bozeman took the idea of social-network monitoring to the extreme, providing a release form that asked job applicants for "any and all current personal or business websites, web pages or memberships on any Internet-based chat rooms, social clubs or forums, to include, but not limited to: Facebook, Google, Yahoo, YouTube.com, etc."
QUESTIONS:
1. Do you think that Facebook is a good source of information on potential employees?
2. Is it a violation of privacy for employers to use Facebook pages as a means of selecting potential candidates for a job? Does Facebook accurately represent you as a potential employee?
3. Bozeman Montana stopped requiring job applicants to supply Facebook logins, but the article states that many employers use Facebook, MySpace, etc. to gather information about employees anyway. Is everything posted on the Internet part of the public domain, or do you consider certain things (like social networking sites) more private?
QUESTIONS:
1. Do you think that Facebook is a good source of information on potential employees?
2. Is it a violation of privacy for employers to use Facebook pages as a means of selecting potential candidates for a job? Does Facebook accurately represent you as a potential employee?
3. Bozeman Montana stopped requiring job applicants to supply Facebook logins, but the article states that many employers use Facebook, MySpace, etc. to gather information about employees anyway. Is everything posted on the Internet part of the public domain, or do you consider certain things (like social networking sites) more private?
1. No. Facebook can be a source of information but it is not a good source of information.
回覆刪除2. For my opinion, using Facebook to select potential candidates doesn't violate right of privacy but I don't think Facebook can correctly reflect me as a potential employee.
3. The internet, especially for social networking sites, can provide some mechanism to classify private pose from public one.
1. I think Facebook is a good source for maintaining friendship and socializing with people but not a good source of information on potential employees.
回覆刪除2. Personally speaking I don't think it's right to ask job applicants to provide their username and password because work and private life shouldn't be treated equal. Unless it's necessary to use their personal website for commercial use.
3. Can't deny that people share information with each other through network since internet has been one of the tools spreading information all around the world. Networking could be both public or private depends on how you treated it.