Social Media technology will one day come back to bite HR and Recruiters

Social Media technology will one day come back to bite HR and Recruiters

I have had the joy of interviewing for new positions and/or contracts recently and am surprised with how the market has evolved the past couple of years. It has always been one of the HR black hole when submitting resumes or making initial phone calls but I am surprised with how HR and the hiring managers disappear even after a face to face interview.

This is going to be a dangerous slope for HR to continue to take due to the prevalence of Social Media. Soon someone is going to become so disgusted that they start leveraging big social sites in a way that does nothing but bash HR and Recruiters.

I don’t mention this as a bashing exercise of my own. Only that with Social Media being used by the organizations to research potential employees; it is probably a safe assumption that over time HR and Recruiters that are not responding to active job hunters will find their online persona become very damaging. And that will eventually lead to their inability to find work. Fore when they once again reenter the job market their online background search will yield the good and the bad of their handling of applicants.

It will be an interesting situation when potential employees start doing online background checks on the HR department employees as part of their job hunts. Of course all the standard liability and slander issues will exist, but some enterprising group is going to develop and add-on to LinkedIn that does nothing but log complaints about HR.

I would enjoy comments on this on my primary site so that I can post a follow up review in a few weeks. If you found this post on one of the sites that syndicates my post please feel free to leave comments on their site but I may not get to respond.