From the UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business On-line Application essay prompt.

“As reported by the New York Times in the June 11, 2006 article, For Some, Online Persona Undermines a Resume, some recruiters are looking up applicants on social networking sites like Facebook.com, where college students often post risqué photographs and provocative comments in what some mistakenly believe is relative privacy. Should employers not access this information using their personal alumni accounts?

Or, should students not post photographs or text that may be inappropriate to show to their potential employers? What ethical, privacy, and/or technological issues should be considered and why? What solution do you propose?”

Ridiculously long tailed, Bruinpied seeded New York Times article rears its head again. So apparently Haas is using an issue I brought to the forefront of public consciousness (Yes, the article’s Tien Nguyen IS BRUINPI) to weed out business school candidates this year after rejecting from that very school 2 years ago.

Just too bad Alan Finder’s editor stripped out the link to bruinpied.com. This article has turned up not only at my university but my high school… one could imagine the traffic this seemingly ever green article would have sent to BP.com =/.
Maybe I should offer consulting advice to prospective Haas candidates. Lets throw up some facebook ads and see what sticks.

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