Talent Gap

We are all familiar with the various classes of people provided for by both the Federal and State fair employment practices acts. These include the traditional race, gender, age, disability and many more too numerous to be listed here. Well, hold on to your hats as there seems to be a new one being added. It now seems that the unemployed are being added to the list.

Whether the practice of asking applicants for their Facebook passwords is legal or even advisable will be debated thoroughly in the weeks to come. The current Facebook frenzy about password privacy misses entirely the reality for hiring managers and Human Resources professionals.