Social in Hiring

For more than a decade, I've advised students, friends and clients with a simple phrase:

Digital assets are extremely portable, and once posted, can live forever.

That relates to you, and your future.  Whether we like it or not, people will judge us, often out of context, for what you have posted.

And, that enters into hiring.

Read this article from Diverse Education about the pitfalls for the HR folks of using social in the decision making process.  I highly recommend it to you as social media folks -- it raises some important questions.