Originally Posted by
rickair7777
This. Why would you not do at least a cursory online search? Or for a few bucks pay someone to do a thorough search... there are few to zero legal protections, and an outsourced background check provider would know all the loopholes and hacks.
As others have said, in your online life avoid right-leaning politics, extremist politics of any sort, drugs, crime, reckless behavior, insensitivity to diversity, or any insensitivity of any sort.
That last is important, some airlines are trying to enhance customer experience and that starts with front-line employees. They (understandably) want pilots to present at a minimum the people skills and empathy of a receptionist at a high-end white-collar office.
All good points. I’m no longer on Facebook, but remember numerous “friends” posting combative political articles and engaging in arguments with their “friends”. It sure was easy to know what to do when asked by these “friends” for a letter of rec. I’d say I ignored maybe 7-10 requests all due to very poor behavior on Facebook. I know I wasn’t the only one to do the same.