technology, education and training from an industrial/organizational (I/O) psychologist
Until a few days ago in Bozeman, Montana, if you passed the initial hurdles during the selection process for a city job, you were only provisionally hired. Full hiring was contingent on the selection officers judging you as a clean slate after giving them your social networking IDs and passwords, including at least Facebook and MySpace.
According to this recent article in the Chronicle, it has become common for college newspapers to put their full archives online, and as a result, anything you did in college that anyone ever wrote...
This article and this post at the Wall Street Journal led me to a peculiar conclusion: apparently, the best way to lose a chance at getting hired is to want a job really, really...