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In a recent conversation with an employment agent, I was told to clean up my social media before a potential employer had a chance to search for me online.
The agent said that I was innocuous compared to other people, but anything that portrayed me as anything but a professional person should be deleted or edited.
Holiday and family photos were, within reason, okay, put I should thing twice about politically charged or even mild sexually explicit posts and also think twice about some funnies I forwarded from mates. Even if not explicitly stated, if employed I would indirectly be representing the company.
This was apparently not a direct go at me and was something the agency said to everyone.
That said, I was told the employer would probably do a search on potential employees' digital footprints.
Over the top or common sense?
Common sense - but instead of the above, you can do 2 things:
1 - Move work friends (or anyone who you don't want to see everything) to "acquaintances" instead of proper friends
2 - Make most of your posts to "Friends except acquaintances"
Then nobody other than your "real friends" can see any of your posts.
You can CHOOSE you post to all friends, or even to post publicly - but you can be nice and careful with how you use that.
There's even a tool that will go through all of your historic posts and set them to FeA too IIRC.
This is what I do. Pictures of me black out drunk to my real mates, pictures of me walking in the park to everyone.
While they will obviously check, I doubt they'd ever ask about it in an interview.Just set ya Facebook to PVT man and if employers asks just say you dont havea FB profile because its full of bellends and people posting photos of Kebabs as if they are fine cuisine