Why job hunters should censor their Facebook pages

If your Facebook profile includes embarrassing photos or comments that you wouldn’t want a prospective employer to read, think hard about your privacy settings because employers are increasingly turning to social networks as part of their background checks.

As a new survey by CareerBuilder makes clear, more employers are pre-screening candidates using their social networking profiles and the results can be positive or negative. The survey revealed that 35% of employers had decided not to hire a candidate as a result of photos, comments, and information about drinking/drug taking posted on profiles in Facebook, MySpace, Twitter etc.

The message then: clean up your profile, or ensure that anything that might embarrass you is only viewable by your closest friends.

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