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Recruiters Are Checking You Out On Facebook

August 20, 2009 By Chris Miller

Employers increasingly turning to Facebook to check up on you

by Christopher Null: The Working Guy. Yahoo Tech

If you’re lucky enough to have landed a job interview in this economy, you’d better have your ducks in a row. And more and more these days that means getting your social networks in order before your would-be bosses come sniffing around.

According to a survey conducted by CareerBuilder, Facebook has become the network of choice for recruiters to sniff out data about job applicants, with 30 percent of hiring managers saying they use Facebook searches to research information about new and potential hires.

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