{"id":1227,"date":"2006-06-11T15:22:11","date_gmt":"2006-06-11T15:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/if-your-conscience-fails-you-on-this-one.html"},"modified":"2006-06-11T15:22:11","modified_gmt":"2006-06-11T15:22:11","slug":"if-your-conscience-fails-you-on-this-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/if-your-conscience-fails-you-on-this-one.html","title":{"rendered":"If your conscience fails you on this one.."},"content":{"rendered":"

Be practical. A NYTimes article on how job recruiters are using the internet to weed out the irresponsible and immature.<\/a> In other words: watch out what you put on your MySpace, Xanga and Facebook.<\/p>\n

Good for forwarding to young people in your life….<\/p>\n

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Ana Homayoun runs Green Ivy Educational Consulting, a small firm that tutors and teaches organizational skills to high school students in the San Francisco area. Ms. Homayoun visited Duke University<\/span><\/a> this spring for an alumni weekend and while there planned to interview a promising job applicant. <\/p>\n

Curious about the candidate, Ms. Homayoun went to her page on Facebook. She found explicit photographs and commentary about the student’s sexual escapades, drinking and pot smoking, including testimonials from friends. Among the pictures were shots of the young woman passed out after drinking.<\/p>\n

"I was just shocked by the amount of stuff that she was willing to publicly display," Ms. Homayoun said. "When I saw that, I thought, ‘O.K., so much for that.’ "<\/p>\n

Ms. Rose said a recruiter had told her he rejected an applicant after searching the name of the student, a chemical engineering major, on Google. Among the things the recruiter found, she said, was this remark: "I like to blow things up."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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