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Putting Stock in Social Networks?
I had an interesting question posed today. The gist of it was that someone was interviewing to fill a DBA position in their company. One of the interviewees had been doing DBA work for quite some time and seemed like an interesting candidate.
The issue was that searching for this person online resulted in… nothing. Nothing at all. No social sites, no posts, no nothing. Now, it’s possible that it was just necessary to keep searching, but it brought up an intriguing question. If you cannot find someone online – someone that has been working with computers – is this an issue? If you couldn’t find a single post, a single message, a single social networking site mention… would it begin to color your impression of this candidate?
Do you use social networking sites for an insight into your professional candidates, and in particular DBAs and database architects?
Drop me a note – let me know how you work through this . What tools do you use? How much weight does this type of reference (or lack of reference) have on your interview and appraisal process?
I’ve used this informally before, but it’s more to exclude someone if they had something really funky in their profile. It’s never really come up that I couldn’t find ANY reference, so I don’t know for sure how to interpret no profiles at all. Perhaps it’s the whole "first, do no harm" thing – if you are concerned about what your profile would say or suggest, don’t have one. Not sure – will look forward to your thoughts and comments.
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