New Study Finds Facebook Predicts Job Performance and Academic Success
By: Vi Nguyen
Updated: February 21, 2012
"There are a lot of studies that say you can assess someone's personality by viewing their bedroom, viewing their office, and reading their resume," said Dr. Donald Kluemper.
Now you can add the social networking website Facebook to the list.
A professor at Northern Illinois University believes Facebook could be a huge asset to the business world.
A professor at Northern Illinois University believes Facebook could be a huge asset to the business world.
"Facebook could be used by evaluators or raters to predict performance. Both job performance and academic success."
His thoughts come from the results of his recent study - where *raters analyzed a person's Facebook page. They looked at everything from status updates to pictures even wall conversations.Those answers were then compared to a personality and skills test taken by the subject.
Dr. Kluemper says the results his researchers found were very similar, but using Facebook information in an interview can be tricky.
His thoughts come from the results of his recent study - where *raters analyzed a person's Facebook page. They looked at everything from status updates to pictures even wall conversations.Those answers were then compared to a personality and skills test taken by the subject.
Dr. Kluemper says the results his researchers found were very similar, but using Facebook information in an interview can be tricky.
"Basically any questions that's illegl for me to ask someone in a job interview is readily avaliable on a Facebook profile," said Kluemper.
Furst Staffing Commercial Business Manager Suzanna Shelain says personal information are readily available.
"Things such as religion, race, family status-- all of those pieces of info might be readily available," she said.
Though it's not illegal to view personal information online. Shelain doesn't believe managers should consider those details when hiring.
"It's imperative that companies put policy and procedures in place to make certain that their employees are utilizing approriate information that can be ultize in a hiring decision," said Shelain.
"Things such as religion, race, family status-- all of those pieces of info might be readily available," she said.
Though it's not illegal to view personal information online. Shelain doesn't believe managers should consider those details when hiring.
"It's imperative that companies put policy and procedures in place to make certain that their employees are utilizing approriate information that can be ultize in a hiring decision," said Shelain.
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