When was a job applicant perfect until you googled them? Hiring private tutors to work with

middle school students. Had a great conversation with a girl. She stressed how much she wants to be a

role model for young girls, basically exactly what we were looking for. Then I googled her,

and the first picture on her Facebook is her doing a line. I wasn't the hiring manager, but my teammate was.

A candidate came through that he and some other members interviewed and seemed pretty

okay for the job until they checked her out.

Turns out she was already suing the company.

Yes, the one she applied for a job for, so my teammate ended up not going with her in the end.

This kid, early 20s, comes in for a job

and seems normal enough. Google him and he was wanted in another state for stabbing a St. Bernard

to death. I was interviewing a much older guy for a similar position of mine. Everything seemed

okay and he was our best candidate. Before moving forward, I did a quick

Google search only to find out that he was fired from his previous job because of stealing

$5,000 worth of computer equipment. My director hired him anyway. Did everything work out? The

original poster can't answer because he got his computer stolen. I wasn't the hiring manager, but I was

talking to him about a couple of interviews he had coming up. He said that he looked up one guy

and found out that he'd been arrested previously for various identity theft and credit card

fraud crimes. This position involved taking payments from customers, among other things, so obviously

this guy would not be hired, but that

had to have been an awkward interview. I was a restaurant manager, and the owner hired this guy as a

chef without doing basic research. This happened a few times. Anyway, the guy said he'd won several

awards and worked with celebrities, stuff like that. And he was a total jerk to everyone on staff. I decided to

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