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November 26, 2013 01:13 am GMT

Posting Your Religion Online Could Cost You That Job

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Job candidates who share their religious affiliations on Facebook and Twitter could have a more difficult time finding work, new research suggests.

A study from Carnegie Mellon University revealed that while there are a number of personal questions employers are not legally allowed to ask during the interview, job candidates who post those details on social networks are opening themselves up to potential hiring discrimination.

"Our experiment focused on a novel tension: the tension between the law — which, in the United States, protects various types of information, making it risky for certain personal questions to be asked during interviews — and new information technologies, such as online social networks, which make that same information often available to strangers, including interviewers and employers," said Alessandro Acquisti, associate professor of information technology and public policy and one of the study's authors. Read more...

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