aiir

No one is going in and reading your private messages on Facebook haha! That’s a ridiculous breach of privacy which is on a whole other level beyond employment checks. Lol

If we apply common sense, we would reach the conclusion that if Facebook was selling that type of access, a scandal would have erupted by now due to a leak somewhere, and Facebook would lose all sorts of business. Nah, the truth is that they need you, they need us to be wasting our time there. If they break that pact, someone else will rise up and replace them, and they don’t want that which is why you constantly see them tweaking their privacy settings and providing little tutorials for us on how to keep our accounts secure. Lol

Employers at most can see what your friends can see. That’s it.

Also, say if you follow certain pages and write comments on such pages, that remains public, this is for any public page, so if you lose your marbles and write an angry post on the Wal-Mart page, well that can pop up in the future, lol. Or if a friend of yours has their profile set to public, any comment you do on his page and any photos he puts up of you are also fair game.

A good tip to avoid anyone finding you is to use a different email for your Facebook login than the one you use for your resume and job applications. It might also be a good idea not to list your current city. Also, on the Facebook page, on the security tab, you can set it so that no one can find you via your email or phone number. On this tab you can also opt out of search engines linking to your profile. This is of course if your employer doesn’t straight out ask for your social media info. I’ve had this happen on non aviation related jobs, and I don’t know about the airlines since I’m just starting out.

Anyways, I myself I’m not super active on social media but as I’m late 20s I do post a few photos here and there of my travels and hobbies since for my generation it’s very strange when you have no social media presence...what a strange generation. Lol

Best of luck!

StrykerB21

Dude what?

AC560

I hire people and I read your Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. I also check with people who know you. There is a lot of truth to the saying, it is who you know. If you don’t know anyone and you put dumb stuff on your Facebook, adios resume.

While I don’t hire airline pilots, I have taught more of you than I care to think about. Always excites me when people post a video of them violating some FAR on Facebook.

Don’t be stupid, good luck!

ceelo

I said what I said. Read it again if you don't understand.

captjns

It cracks me up how many wannabe indcutees into the Charles Darwin Hall of Fame post on on media sites such as YouTube videos of themselves and their fellow crewmember in the cockpit especially below 10,000’ during Sterile Cockpit phase of flights. Yep... tuition can come at a high price.

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.

SUX4U

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.

PotatoChip

Wait... you can’t even be a Republican anymore??
That’s taking it too far.

(I don’t post anything political).

rickair7777

Understand your target audience. HR people...

PotatoChip

Fine. But you are lumping ALL Republicans into the white-pride, biggot, anti-LGBT basket. Not all are Mike Pence. Many are simply fiscally conservative folks who attend church on Sunday.
Oh, I guess people shouldn’t post that they attend church, either?

It’s simple.
Don’t post hateful or insensitive comments. Be nice.
If HR truly wants a diverse group wouldn’t they hire Republicans? Or is “diverse” just Democrats and minorities?
SMH.