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Turns out recruiters don't actually care about your social media profile – Yahoo Finance Australia
Conventional job-hunting wisdom dictates: make sure your social media accounts are clean, free of unprofessional photos or comments, or otherwise hidden on the private setting.
Perhaps a potential employer could be lurking on LinkedIn, and what you post could affect your chances of getting that job.
But the University of New South Wales’ Business School has rubbished this, with new research finding that there’s “little to no” correlation between a job candidate’s social media profile and their potential performance or retention levels.
UNSW Business School School of Management lecturer Liwen Zhang created studies that examined job hunters’ social media profiles and whether this content was taken into consideration by recruiters.
“We tried to standardise the process to help improve the validity of these assessments. We provided training to recruiters, and provided more standardised evaluation forms, and tried to have multiple recruiters to assess the same applicants,” Zhang said.
“But the results show that this does not really appear to improve the prediction of future job behaviours or withdrawal intentions.”
The research also raised questions about the extent to which content found on social media profiles could be considered in hiring decisions.
“Applicants’ discriminatory posts and behaviours are often not welcomed at the workplace,” Zhang said. “We categorise such behaviours and statements as ‘information that may be a concern to an organisation’.
“I think it could be fair for organisations to review this information from social media and use it in staffing decisions.
“However, if recruiters use applicants’ ethnicity or marriage status information obtained from social media sites, this will raise legal concerns.”
And while recruiters might not ask for your social media profiles directly, there are other ways they may go about it, Zhang added.
“We do see recruiters [effectively] demanding access in various ways, such as using a social media profile login to create an application profile, or to sign a consent agreement.”
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Jon Stewart Slams the Media for Coverage of Trump Trial – The New York Times
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Opening arguments began in former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial on Monday, with much of the news media coverage homing in on as many details as possible about the proceedings.
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Jon Stewart rips media over coverage of ‘banal’ Trump trial details – The Hill
Jon Stewart blasted the media for covering the “banal” details of former President Trump’s first of four criminal trials, which began with opening statements Monday following a week of jury selection.
In his Monday night broadcast of “The Daily Show,” Stewart poked fun at the TV news media for tracking Trump’s traffic route from Trump Tower to the courtroom, compiling footage from various outlets, as they tracked each turn his car made.
“Seriously, are we going to follow this guy to court every f‑‑‑ing day? Are you trying to make this O.J. [Simpson]? It’s not a chase. He’s commuting,” Stewart said. “So the media’s first attempt — the very first attempt on the first day — at self-control failed.”
Media outlets have closely covered Trump in recent days, as he makes history as the first U.S. president to stand trial on criminal charges. Trump is also the presumptive GOP nominee for president this year.
Trump currently faces 34 criminal counts of falsifying business records in connection to reimbursements to his then-fixer, Michael Cohen, who paid adult film actress Stormy Daniels $130,000 ahead of the 2016 election to stay quiet about an alleged affair she had with the former president a decade prior. It is the first of four criminal trials Trump will face, and perhaps the only one that will go to a jury before the November election.
Stewart, in his broadcast, took aim at TV news outlets, suggesting they were covering small news alerts as significant breaking news developments.
Stewart pretended a producer was talking in his earpiece and paused midsentence, saying, “Hold on. We’re getting breaking news,” and cut to a clip from an earlier interview conducted by CNN’s Jake Tapper, who similarly cut off his guest momentarily to identify a photo displayed on screen to his audience.
“I’m sorry to interrupt. Just for one second. I apologize,” Tapper said in the clip. “We’re just showing the first image of Donald Trump from inside the courtroom. It’s a still photograph that we’re showing there. Just want to make sure our viewers know what they’re looking at.”
Stewart shot back, saying, “Yes, for our viewers who are just waking up from a 30-year coma, this is what Donald Trump has looked like every day for the past 30 years. Same outfit.”
Stewart ripped CNN again for analyzing the courtroom sketches so closely, saying, “It’s a sketch. Why would anyone analyze a sketch like it was — it’d be like looking at the Last Supper and going, ‘Why do you think Jesus looks so sad here? What do you think? It’s because of Judas?’”
“Look, at some point in this trial, something important and revelatory is going to happen,” Stewart said. “But none of us are going to notice, because of the hours spent on his speculative facial ticks. If the media tries to make us feel like the most mundane bullshit is earth-shattering, we won’t believe you when it’s really interesting.”
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