CNNMoney.com offers a fairly innocuous story: Survey: CEOs bullish on better economy. That is always good news and I am bullish along with them.
Small and mid-sized companies are optimistic about the U.S. economy’s prospects in 2007 on the back of brisk first-quarter sales and increased revenue, according to a survey released Tuesday.
But catch this little throw-away line from later in the article:
Twenty-one percent of all executives surveyed report having conducted Internet searches via News Corporation-owned MySpace, Facebook or Google when researching job candidates, the survey showed.
I found that number staggering – almost 1 in 4 executives are using social networking sites or search engines to research candidates. It is the right approach. Unfortunately, I would prefer to know how many executives used Google vs. the other sites. My hunch – of those 21%, the vast majority only used Google to research the candidate.
We’ve posted on this topic before– every candidate should complete their own online research regarding themselves. You never know what digital dirt is floating around in cyberspace.