Companies are spying on job candidates online
Online vetting is spreading—and worrying
YOU MAY never know why. The email will arrive and reasons offered for your rejection might be the real ones—or not. Companies do not always like to admit that they have been scrolling through your Instagram or Twitter feed, noting drunken photos and off-colour jokes. Yet many, particularly the big ones, are doing just that. And in increasing numbers, they are acting on what they find when deciding whom to hire and whom to pass over.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Big employer is watching you”
Britain March 12th 2022
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