If you’re interviewing with someone under 40, the interviewer is going to look you up on social media. Almost definitively, I do not know anyone who doesn’t do a quick google search before the interview. May or may not be anything official at an HR level, and for me personally, unless I see something crazy and you’re in a visible role, I’m probably not going to say anything.
We had a guy once who thought his social media was private and he was very wrong. Their interests were stacked pretty heavily towards weed and guns. Would not be a huge problem if it was private and they were able to abstain long enough to satisfy the potential drug screen, but with the amount of visibility, if anything came up, people might start searching for someone to blame for not doing their due diligence when hiring and my team would probably end up being the scapegoat.
As far as the drug screen specifically, I do not understand the methodology HR uses to determine whether someone needs to be drug screened during on-boarding. Maybe they know something I don’t, but it seems completely random.
tl;dr: Someone will almost definitely go through it and unless it’s actually for real private, you probably aren’t as clever as you think in hiding it. The bar though for social media in my experience is pretty low.
If you’re interviewing with someone under 40, the interviewer is going to look you up on social media. Almost definitively, I do not know anyone who doesn’t do a quick google search before the interview. May or may not be anything official at an HR level, and for me personally, unless I see something crazy and you’re in a visible role, I’m probably not going to say anything.
We had a guy once who thought his social media was private and he was very wrong. Their interests were stacked pretty heavily towards weed and guns. Would not be a huge problem if it was private and they were able to abstain long enough to satisfy the potential drug screen, but with the amount of visibility, if anything came up, people might start searching for someone to blame for not doing their due diligence when hiring and my team would probably end up being the scapegoat.
As far as the drug screen specifically, I do not understand the methodology HR uses to determine whether someone needs to be drug screened during on-boarding. Maybe they know something I don’t, but it seems completely random.
tl;dr: Someone will almost definitely go through it and unless it’s actually for real private, you probably aren’t as clever as you think in hiding it. The bar though for social media in my experience is pretty low.