Social Media: HR Friend or Foe?
Law360
5/31/2011
Richard H. Block and Jessica W. Catlow
"The Internet, and social media or social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Foursquare in particular, offers a trove of information for employers to review when considering job applicants. Indeed, according to a 2009 survey conducted by CareerBuilder, 45 percent of employers use social networking sites to research job candidates, an increase of nearly 23 percent from the year before."
In this article, "Social Media: HR Friend or Foe?" published in Law360 on May 31, 2011, Mintz Levin attorneys Richard H. Block and Jessica W. Catlow discuss the use of social media sites in conducting background on job applicants, and the potential pitfalls of basing these decisions on such sites.
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