Why Should Employers And Admission Officers Use Social Networking?

“Every 60 seconds on Facebook: 510,000 comments are posted, 293,000 statuses are updated, and 136,000 photos are uploaded.”(“The Top 20 Valuable Facebook Statistics- Updated January 2018” ). Social networking is an online way to stay connected with friends and family without being in person. Social networking also is where some of the aspects of your daily lives can be shown. For example, someone could probably tell what a person's job is from your social networking, and social networking shows people's interests which could hint at what kind of job someone would like to have in the future. This could also give someone information on whether or not you might be a decent recruit for a job. Employers and admission officers should be able to use social network in the hiring and recruiting process. Employers and admission officers should be able to examine social networking because it reveals an applicant's character, public information on social networking is the applicant’s responsibility, and college admissioners and employer’s using public information to gather information on an applicant is legal.

In some cases, people say that this way of hiring and recruiting is a way to discriminate against the applicants(Boyd). “According to the Kaplan report, the social networking sites had a positive impact 25 percent of the time on admission, while 38 percent of the time it had a negative effect(Cartwright). The purpose of this quote is to say that not only does social networking create a poor look for an applicant's character, but it can assemble an applicant’s character better for an interview. Employers checking social networking can show whether or not applicants and employees committing decent actions, and it shows what they accomplish in