New recruits stumble on Facebook
Here’s a new twist on the implications of social media for government organizations - as fodder for union disputes about the staffing of new graduates.
A couple of former Canada Border Services Agency employees - who don’t seem to have been hired for full-time work after several summers as part-timers - have been tracking the Facebook postings of summer students and new recruits for the Agency.
In these posts, comments and profiles, the recruits talk openly and maybe a little too frankly about their work. Oh - and have posted pictures of themselves drinking while in uniform.
There are certainly implications for an organization’s public image, but even greater are the obvious challenges for the internal communications and human resources teams.
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October 2nd, 2007 13:55
The bigger issue is the lack of judgement on the recruits part. Organisations will have to start including this type of thing in their training material to avoid such happenings from occurring in the future as these can be a PR nightmare.
October 3rd, 2007 13:34
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October 3rd, 2007 15:11
I have been looking for these pictures and posts so I can be more educated on the issue. I have a loved one in CBSA right now. I guess they have banned the internet in the building. Why not ban the drinking?