The job market is reportedly improving. That is good news for the 12.8 million Americans (8.3%) who are unemployed according to the U.S. Department of Labor.
Unfortunately, there is still plenty of room for the economy to improve. Many Americans are dusting off their resumes and hoping to rejoin the ranks of the working.
Returning to work after a hiatus means making some adjustments. Now the same can be said for the new line of questioning in interviews. One of the new questions is, "What's your Facebook username and password?"
That's right. According to an article on Yahoo! Finance, prospective employers now want to know what your Facebook account consists of.
That's wrong.
What someone does on their own time has nothing to do with the type of work they can do in a professional field. Using a job as a reason to snoop into someones private life is a waste of time and is inexcusable. Human Resource personnel could spend their time in more productive ways than seeing if someone likes a band, dislikes a politician, or, God forbid, comments on an unpleasant experience someone may have had with a company they happen to be applying to months or even years after the bad experience.
Using a Facebook profile to weed out candidates or wondering what people are saying about their company is just another example of the hypersensitivity that has permeated throughout society and its employers and the need for people and companies to put forth a better effort for their customers and employees rather than trying to control the message. If companies focus on more important things than someone's Facebook page, productivity will increase, customers and employees will be happy and what is being said on a social networking site will be the least of their concerns.
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