Companies look at wrong things when using Facebook to screen job applicants
Tuesday, July 2, 2013 - 10:01
in Mathematics & Economics
(Phys.org) —Employers are increasingly using Facebook to screen job applicants and weed out candidates they think have undesirable traits. But a new study from North Carolina State University shows that those companies may have a fundamental misunderstanding of online behavior and, as a result, may be eliminating desirable job candidates.