Do you vet your employees?
Poll: Do you vet your employees?
Total Members Polled: 22
Discussion
Inspired by this thread in NP&E:-
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
There is a lot of debate on if this girl has irreparably damaged her future employability by her actions with many on either side of the question.
It also seems that there are a lot of companies who you would expect to be sensitive to this that aren’t and some you’d expect would be happy just to have an applicant who vet their first pet’s brother’s sire.
Where does your company/employer sit, and how many employees do they have (roughly). In the Poll please read 'Google' as being shorthand for Facebook, Twitter, Linked In and other Social Media groups.
We have iro 25 and everyone is DBS checked. We always insist on references but usually new employees have been known to people here for many years. Round here you don’t need the internet to know what James Jones has got up to on Friday night, the jungle drums will let you know if juicy… That said we always have a little Google about just to see what crops up but have yet to find anything that has required further digging or of concern.
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
There is a lot of debate on if this girl has irreparably damaged her future employability by her actions with many on either side of the question.
It also seems that there are a lot of companies who you would expect to be sensitive to this that aren’t and some you’d expect would be happy just to have an applicant who vet their first pet’s brother’s sire.
Where does your company/employer sit, and how many employees do they have (roughly). In the Poll please read 'Google' as being shorthand for Facebook, Twitter, Linked In and other Social Media groups.
We have iro 25 and everyone is DBS checked. We always insist on references but usually new employees have been known to people here for many years. Round here you don’t need the internet to know what James Jones has got up to on Friday night, the jungle drums will let you know if juicy… That said we always have a little Google about just to see what crops up but have yet to find anything that has required further digging or of concern.
I voted mix and match.
I find it quite disturbing just how much trawling some people must do and how much information they think is essential to decide if you are right for the role. Confirming that for example qualifications are legitimate and references are from real people at real companies is surely more important than snooping around the FB page to see if they have posted a drunken picture or two or if they play candy crush or not.
I find it quite disturbing just how much trawling some people must do and how much information they think is essential to decide if you are right for the role. Confirming that for example qualifications are legitimate and references are from real people at real companies is surely more important than snooping around the FB page to see if they have posted a drunken picture or two or if they play candy crush or not.
aka_kerrly said:
I voted mix and match.
I find it quite disturbing just how much trawling some people must do and how much information they think is essential to decide if you are right for the role. Confirming that for example qualifications are legitimate and references are from real people at real companies is surely more important than snooping around the FB page to see if they have posted a drunken picture or two or if they play candy crush or not.
Depends on the type of job - doesn't it.I find it quite disturbing just how much trawling some people must do and how much information they think is essential to decide if you are right for the role. Confirming that for example qualifications are legitimate and references are from real people at real companies is surely more important than snooping around the FB page to see if they have posted a drunken picture or two or if they play candy crush or not.
I just assume everyone gets drunk in their spare time. As long as they come to work sobre and whatever interest/pastime doesn't affect their ability to perform the job well or affects their decisions, I couldn't care less what they did.
DBS is a given if it's working with children/the vulnerable.
DBS is a given if it's working with children/the vulnerable.
MitchT said:
Rude-boy said:
If they can spell their name their in.
Please, please, please tell me you did that deliberately!I can't spell for toffee and I'm not the hottest grammar Nazi out there yet there, their, they're is one of the few errors that really annoys me, as does know, no and your, you're.
Eric Mc said:
Depends on the type of job - doesn't it.
I could not care if x is bumping ugglies with y and z at the same time but if they are stupid enough to, say, have a picture of them, eyes like piss holes in the snow, holding a fat one in front of a load of papers on an easy to find website/facebook/twitter account then they aren't going to be getting a job offer from a firm of solicitors anytime soon.
Mainly when we check it is just to make sure that there isn't anything that will pop up in 10-15 minutes of low level searching on the net.
If BJ girl's antics are on page 5 of Google by the time she applies for a job here then it isn't a dead cert that it would be spotted, if it is on page one then she'd not be getting the offer anymore than the applicant who thinks it is witty to have their status as "Shaggin mo Hoes init." with a crop of photos of dubious advisability to have on public display.
It isn't just about what we think, it's about what Mrs Miggins (74, widow, 3 children) would likely think about a place that employed someone like that.
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