Seattle: When Justin Bassett interviewed for a new job, he expected the usual questions about experience and references. So he was astonished when the interviewer asked for something else: his Facebook username and password.
Bassett, a New York City statistician, had just finished answering a few character questions when the interviewer turned to her computer to search for his Facebook page. But she couldn't see his private profile. She turned back and asked him to hand over his login information.
Bassett refused and withdrew his application, saying he didn't want to work for a company that would seek such personal information. But as the job market steadily improves, other job candidates are confronting the same question from prospective employers, and some of them cannot afford to say no.
In their efforts to vet applicants, some companies and government agencies are going beyond merely glancing at a person's social networking profiles and instead asking to log in as the user to have a look around....
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11:33 AM, Mar 21, 2012
Washington: Two young Indian-American entrepreneurs are attempting to make the traditional paper resume a thing of the past by connecting the job seeker and the employer through video resumes. The Palo Alto Mayor, Yiaway Yeh, and several other top corporate leaders of the city which is known as the heart of the Silicon Valley - lined up last Thursday in its downtown to inaugurate the new office of GetHired.Com, which...
03:47 PM, Feb 20, 2012
Roger Donaldson directed 'Seeking Justice' is about a man who enlists the services of a vigilante group to help him exact revenge after his wife is brutally raped. Nicolas Cage, Guy Pearce and January Jones star in this New Orleans-based thriller. ...
05:52 PM, Jan 31, 2012
New Delhi: The High Level Committee constituted by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, in its first meeting held on Thursday, decided to seek public comments on ways to unearth black money. The Committee, headed by CBDT Chairman Prakash Chandra, was set up last month to examine ways to strengthen laws to curb generation of black money in India, its illegal transfer abroad and its recovery. "The Committee held its first meeting...
07:25 PM, Jun 09, 2011
Tishani Doshi’s Pleasure Seekers starts on a promising note - the story of a simple Gujarati boy based in Chennai who is sent by his father to study at a Polytechnic in London to acquire skills that would help their paint business flourish. The Jain boy promptly goes and falls in love with a Welsh girl, starts eating meat and drinking alcohol – he does all that he is prohibited...
12:09 PM, Sep 29, 2010
New Delhi: Chennai-based poet, dancer and writer Tishani Doshi, who's already making waves world-wide with her debut novel
The Pleasure-Seekers, is no stranger to the spotlight. Tishani, a literary debut, who has been working at for eight years, has already got high praise from stalwarts like author Salman Rushdie. “I'd guess at about eight years from conceiving the idea to writing and editing. The main story was to take the...
09:05 AM, Aug 10, 2010
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Journalist Hem Chandra Pandey was killed this month in a police encounter in Andhra. ...
12:14 PM, Jul 16, 2010
Few companies plan to hire school-leavers, university graduates. ...
05:04 PM, May 26, 2009
People want to look younger, 'fresher' for the ever-competitive job market. ...
12:59 PM, Apr 08, 2009
A newspaper advertising jobs at a career fair in Los Angeles. ...
03:14 AM, Feb 06, 2009
Northampton: Abhinav Mukund struck a brilliant 113 as India progressed to 327/7 at stumps in their two day tour match against Northamptonshire on Friday. Mukund struck 18 boundaries and was involved in a 132 run partnership with VVS Laxman for the third wicket which allowed the visitors to dominate proceedings. Amit Mishra on 48 and S Sreesanth on 15 were the not out batsmen at the end of the day....
05:36 PM, Feb 18, 2008
The hacking exposed thousands of job seekers to the risk of blackmail. ...
01:59 PM, Aug 23, 2007
Nagaland is fast emerging as a hub for issuing bogus arms licenses for people from across the country. ...
12:13 PM, Jun 08, 2007
The family members of Shashinath Jha on Monday moved to the Delhi High Court seeking death sentence for Shibu Soren. ...
11:51 PM, Feb 19, 2007
With 13,100 new resumes per day during July-Sept, Monster India acquired 62 pc more resumes than its nearest competitors. ...
10:35 AM, Dec 13, 2006
