You might have cleaned up your Facebook profile so employers wouldn't see your drunk bachelor party pictures . . . but they can still find plenty of information there.
--Researchers from Northern Illinois, the University of Evansville, and Auburn found that looking at people's Facebook pages for just ten minutes could predict how well they'd do on the job.
--They had people in Human Resources look at the Facebook pages of job applicants and grade them on traits like intellectual curiosity, conscientiousness, agreeability, and whether they were extraverted.
--After six months on the job, supervisors evaluated the candidates on the same traits . . . and came to the same conclusions. The strongest correlations were for intellectual curiosity, agreeability, and conscientiousness.
--Photos of you traveling show you're open to new experiences, and the number of friends you have indicates how extraverted you are.
(Mashable)





