{"id":749,"date":"2007-03-14T09:15:07","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T14:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/03\/researching-a-candidate-online\/"},"modified":"2007-03-14T09:15:26","modified_gmt":"2007-03-14T14:15:26","slug":"researching-a-candidate-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/03\/researching-a-candidate-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Researching A Candidate Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNNMoney.com offers a fairly innocuous story:  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/rssclick\/2007\/03\/13\/news\/economy\/bc.usa.economy.ceos.reut\/index.htm?section=money_news_economy\">Survey: CEOs bullish on better economy<\/a>.  That is always good news and I am bullish along with them.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Small and mid-sized companies are optimistic about the U.S. economy&#8217;s prospects in 2007 on the back of brisk first-quarter sales and increased revenue, according to a survey released Tuesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But catch this little throw-away line from later in the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Twenty-one percent of all executives surveyed <\/strong>report having conducted Internet searches via News Corporation-owned MySpace, Facebook or Google when researching job candidates, the survey showed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I found that number staggering &#8211; 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 &#8211; of those 21%, the vast majority only used Google to research the candidate.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/10\/candidate-google-thyself\/\">We&#8217;ve posted on this topic before<\/a>&#8211; every candidate should complete their own online research regarding themselves.  You never know what digital dirt is floating around in cyberspace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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 &#8211; almost 1 in 4 executives are using social networking sites or search engines to research&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/03\/researching-a-candidate-online\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-c5","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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