researchers recruited a group of four Facebook-savvy human resources professionals and students to evaluate the Facebook profiles of 56 users. The four perused each of the profiles for about 10 minutes each before grading them according to the so-called Big Five personality traits (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism).
Six months later, the researchers compared the evaluations of the 56 users’ work supervisors and found a strong correlation for traits including intellectual curiosity, agreeability and conscientiousness. The evalauations are, of course, subjective, but job seekers shouldn’t necessarily worry that they need to clean up their Facebook profile.
I have no idea what my profile says about me, but this study is interesting (if not a little unscientific). It’s not inconceivable that in 10 years time (if not less) social media profile aggregators like Klout will dictate the way future employers might think of you before you even get an interview.
(via mashable)
