My Dog Ate My Resume: Bank intern busted by Facebook

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Bank intern busted by Facebook

I saw this article and had to laugh, this will follow him for sometime in his career. Not only are employers looking at their current employees the are looking before you get hired. They are searching on your name, and email address from your resume, to see what they can find.

What you have on your “social network” might effect your career.

Dennis

Your Privacy Is An Illusion By Owen Thomas

Kevin Colvin, busted by Facebook

Who says Facebook is the province of the young? Increasingly, the 30something bosses of naive recent college grads are proving adept at turning the social network against its earliest adopters. Kevin Colvin, an intern at Anglo Irish Bank's North American arm, was busted when he told his manager, Paul Davis, that he'd miss work due to what colleagues took to be a "family emergency". Davis turned up the photo above, freshly posted to Facebook from the Halloween party Colvin apparently missed work to attend, and attached it to his reply, copying the rest of the office as he did it. The email thread is now spreading around the net. After the jump, the entire exchange, and the incriminating photo.

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AnonymousJanuary 22, 2009 at 12:00 PM
Dennis -

That photo looks like it could have come from my son's Myspace or Facebook. He's currently a senior in high school and it terrifies me that such childish "displays" may haunt him not only as he applies to colleges but beyond as well!

I'm sure Kevin Colvin's "fame" will be regarded as "infamy" as he tries to get another job.
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AnonymousJanuary 26, 2009 at 1:40 AM
Defintely a wrong move on his part. :(

He should have been more careful on selecting photos to show online.

Have a great day!
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Jo HoffackerFebruary 3, 2009 at 6:01 AM
OMG, too funny!
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AnonymousFebruary 3, 2009 at 7:29 AM
The thing is, it is not only your own photos that show up, but anywhere where someone else posts a photo and adds your name as a tag.
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Bank intern busted by Facebook

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