The obvious is confirmed: employers look at your social networking pages. When an employer interviews you these days, you should assume that they either already have, or are going to, plug your name into a search engine and sift through the results.

The survey done by Microsoft found that 70 percent of HR professionals in the U.S. have rejected a job applicant based on what they found out about that individual by searching online (that number is lower in other countries).

This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone, though the number is a tad higher than most people assumed. The personal reputation management industry can, of course, prevent this from being such a major problem.

http://gigaom.com/2010/01/27/yes-virginia-hr-execs-check-your-facebook-page/