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Recruiters rely on Google to weed out job candidates

Among executive recruiters, 90 percent say they've researched job candidates through Google to find out information beyond their rsums, and 50 percent say they've cut executive job candidates after finding certain information.

By Amanda McGrory-Dixon | Updated on September 24, 2012

Among executive recruiters, 90 percent say they’ve researched job candidates through Google to find out information beyond their résumés, and 50 percent say they’ve cut executive job candidates after finding certain information, a jump from 26 percent in 2005, according to a new survey by ExecuNet.

Some of the reasons respondents have eliminated job prospects are because of a criminal record, tweets about management style, an online profile not matching a résumé, previous trouble with workplace sexual harassment, and inappropriate Facebook pictures or posts.

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