Easy Way for Your Teen to Mess Up Her Job Prospects
Social media. Want to know what that means? Ask your teen. If she’s not on it, all her friends are, and they spend lots of time posting pictures and stories and sharing them with their friends — and with people they don’t even know. Including prospective employers.
And, being teenagers, sometimes they or their friends use bad judgment in what they put on their social media sites. In this case, though, their decisions could have long-range effects.
Here’s a link to a recent blog posting by the publisher of the Virginia Lawyers Weekly. The blog was based on a story that appeared in the U.S.News & World Report of the “5 Do’s and Don’ts for College Students Using Social Media.”
The short message is that prospective employers look at social media to find out what your teen is posting about herself and her friends. And, once it’s out there, it’s out there. Your teen may think the picture her friend posted of her doing something stupid was removed, but it’s still out there somewhere, and savvy employers are watching.
Savvy lawyers are watching, too. I have used social media to find out about a drunk driver who seriously injured a teenager. I found all kinds of postings on Facebook and My Space, all involving alcohol. That information will help when it’s time for me to talk to the young man under oath.
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