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b"Warehouse and Operations as a Career the Podcast. Welcome back, I\\u2019m Marty, and I find myself over in Nevada this week. Just a regular quarterly visit really. I completed a couple of safety walks, checking some files and I had the opportunity to visit with a few recruiters and watch\\u2019em in action! I always enjoy getting to answer a few questions from applicants, especially about equipment usage and any warehouse positions there applying for. Its been a great trip!
\\nI ran across an article from Government Executive this morning https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2020/02/job-recruiters-are-wary-3-things-social-media/162928/ , I\\u2019ll add the link in todays show notes. It kind of goes along with what we were talking about last week regarding our use of social media and I wanted to share their thoughts real quick before we get started. It was titled Job Recruiters Are Wary of 3 Things on Social Media. Let me read a couple of excerpts from the article. You ought to check it out, it's pretty interesting. Anyway, so it says that:
\\nJob recruiters are less likely to select candidates who appear to be too self-involved or opinionated in their social media posts, according to new research.
\\nThe researchers also found that recruiters are less likely to hire employees who post content suggestive of drug or alcohol use.
\\n\\u201cIn 2018, 70% of employers reported looking at social media sites to help them evaluate potential employees, and almost that many\\u201460%\\u2014eliminated candidates on the basis of negative content,\\u201d says Michael Tews, associate professor of hospitality management, citing a recent report by CareerBuilder. \\u201cIt\\u2019s important for job candidates to be aware of how they portray themselves in social media.\\u201d
\\nTews notes that little is known about how much weight hiring managers give to potentially negative social media posts. Therefore, he and his colleagues investigated the effects of three potentially negative topics\\u2014self-absorption, opinionatedness, and alcohol and drug use\\u2014on hiring managers\\u2019 decision making.
\\nThey asked Are Your Social Media Posts Self-Absorbed?
\\nThe team recruited 436 hiring managers from a variety of organizations, 61% of whom worked in the hospitality industry and the remainder in industries ranging from information technology to healthcare.
\\nThe researchers gave participants a scenario to read depicting a hypothetical job candidate who answered interview questions well and exhibited enthusiasm, but also appeared to be prone to job hopping. Next, they asked the participants to review components of the candidates Facebook profiles and to rate their employment suitability.
\\nResearchers randomly assigned each of the participants to view one of 16 different Facebook profiles showing either a male or female exhibiting self-absorption or not, opinionatedness or not, and alcohol and drug use or not. After reading these profiles, the hiring managers evaluated the candidates\\u2019 employment suitability by providing an assessment of person to organization fit and an overall candidate evaluation.
\\nThe researchers found that self-absorption negatively impacted recruiters\\u2019 perceptions of candidates\\u2019 employment suitability and that self-absorption was more important than opinionatedness or drug and alcohol use in driving these negative perceptions. I found that a bit wild my self!
\\n\\u201cSocial networking sites are often thought of as incubators of self-absorption, motivating people to tell others about their every deed and thought,\\u201d says Tews. \\u201cIt could be that hiring managers view individuals who are more self-absorbed and focused on their own interests to be less likely to sacrifice for the benefit of other employees and the organization.\\u201d
\\nNext they advised to Watch Which Opinions You Show To Job Recruiters
\\nThe team also found that opinionatedness negatively affected perceptions of employment suitability.
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