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Yes for me. As job is part of a our life, disregarding of employer or employee, personal life and work are totally related. Is a positive trends where employer wiling and seek to know more about their employee. Afterall employees are not a bunch of robots, their working attitude are heavily affected by their personal life. When an employer know more about a person characteristic before hiring them, isn't it a good thing?

However, theose online resources may not be 100% accurate, but I think that it should be viewed as a supportive material or secondary references for employer to understand more on a staff. When you as an employer facing an unknown person applying a job, the supportive information might act as a draft for judging a person before actually knowing them.

A different point of view is, Yes and No. The practices depends on many factors such as culture background, corporate culture, characteristic of the HR or decison maker. I personally think that for european culture, it will lead to postive outcome but as for asian culture, it might not be so effective. There are also possibilities that might occur where the employer such as the HR personnel or the decision holder have a bad experience towards those personal website and lead to him or her might distrust those information. Besides, some organisations actually have their own in-house rules or long-established rules that block them from trusting those materials.

The above statement is for hiring an emplyee. As for firing employees, it differs. Due to a firing action should be base on an employee's job performance, not their personal factors. If they aren't overly bad-behaved, I think solely relying on those personal material as reference information to fire a staff should not be practiced or to be avoided.

Overly rely on those personal website information might lead an employer to mislead his or her own perception towards the employees, but however overall I agree that employer should or might use those site information as a starting point or baseline to judge an employee before hiring them, as for termination, is a no. thus to utilize or not to utilize those resources should be flexible or according to different setting.

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