<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8dc7b12b-cfe7-4454-8808-7f1f04332cfc/7DB9C81B-01E0-4C6D-A1AB-51C65D9CD388/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/08/uncouth-facebook-postings-closing-doors-for-job-candidates.ars" href="http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/08/uncouth-facebook-postings-closing-doors-for-job-candidates.ars" style="font-size: 11px;">arstechnica.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/08/uncouth-facebook-postings-closing-doors-for-job-candidates.ars"><H2 class="news-item-title">Uncouth Facebook postings closing doors for job candidates</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/08/uncouth-facebook-postings-closing-doors-for-job-candidates.ars"><DIV class="news-item-byline">By <A href="http://arstechnica.com/authors/jacqui-cheng/" >Jacqui Cheng<SPAN class="smarterwiki-popup-bubble smarterwiki-popup-bubble-active"><SPAN class="smarterwiki-popup-bubble-body"><SPAN class="smarterwiki-popup-bubble-links smarterwiki-clearfix"><SPAN class="smarterwiki-popup-bubble-links-row smarterwiki-clearfix"><A class="smarterwiki-popup-bubble-link" href="http://smarterfox.com/wikisearch/search?q=By%20Jacqui%20Cheng&locale=en-US" title="Search Wikipedia" target="_blank"><IMG class="smarterwiki-popup-bubble-link-favicon" alt="" src="http://static.smarterfox.com/media/wiki-favicon-sharpened.png" /></A><A class="smarterwiki-popup-bubble-link" href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=By%20Jacqui%20Cheng" title="Search YouTube" target="_blank"><IMG class="smarterwiki-popup-bubble-link-favicon" alt="" src="http://www.youtube.com/favicon.ico" /></A><A class="smarterwiki-popup-bubble-link" href="http://www.google.com/search?q=By%20Jacqui%20Cheng" title="Search Google" target="_blank"><IMG class="smarterwiki-popup-bubble-link-favicon" alt="" src="http://www.google.com/favicon.ico" /></A></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class="smarterwiki-popup-bubble-tip"></SPAN></SPAN></A> | Last updated <ABBR title="2009-08-20T15:02:00-06:00" class="datetime">August 20, 2009 3:02 PM CT</ABBR></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/08/uncouth-facebook-postings-closing-doors-for-job-candidates.ars"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/arstechnica.com/img/7492B290-A8D6-494C-840F-1C6F5417D09D" alt="Uncouth Facebook postings closing doors for job candidates" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/08/uncouth-facebook-postings-closing-doors-for-job-candidates.ars"><P> <STRONG></STRONG>Some of us had the luck of doing stupid things online before most employers knew what social networking was. (I'll admit it: in my early working days, I said some not-nice things online about some of the people I worked with.) These days, however, those looking for jobs have had many years to build up an unsavory history across the Internet, and employers now know how to do their homework. In fact, nearly half of the employers in the US now search for job candidates on social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, according to survey results from CareerBuilder. The job-finding firm said that the numbers reflect a twofold increase over those who reported doing so in last year—45 percent in 2009 versus 22 percent in 2008—and cautioned that many employers choose not to hire based on information they find online.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7DB9C81B-01E0-4C6D-A1AB-51C65D9CD388/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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