Abstract
For Business School's students such as we are, social networks seem to be a nice tool to boost our careers. In fact professional network like Linkedin appeared and permit to share a résumé on the web. The success of this network comes from the fact you can regroup your whole professional network in to a single place.
Then, when looking for a job, the information you share are directly targeted to professionals. Everything looks good from this point of view, but professionals have also access to other networks such as Facebook or Twitter, then social networks become a tool to ruin your career:
Here I want to use a personal example: few years ago I was looking for an internship as a sale's assistant, Hugo Boss finally hired me.
A week after I started working for the fashion company, my boss asked me about my music tastes. After my answer he replied that he already knew it because he saw my profile picture on Facebook when I was dj-ing in a nightclub. I'm glad he had only access to this single picture of me; otherwise he probably would had a different vision of my person and maybe even he would never hired me.
This situation shows us that even for a simple internship companies are checking candidate' profile to know with who they are dealing with.
It shows us that social medias became a tool for companies during recruitment process and any undesirable content (such as pictures, comments or political views) could impact on manager's hiring decision.
