CHICAGO ￢ﾀﾓ June 26, 2014 ￢ﾀﾓ More employers are turning to social networking sites to find additional information on potential candidates ￢ﾀﾓ and they￢ﾀﾙre not entirely impressed with what they￢ﾀﾙre seeing. A new survey from CareerBuilder found that 51 percent of employers who research job candidates on social media said they￢ﾀﾙve found content that caused them to not hire the candidate, up from 43 percent last year and 34 percent in 2012.

Forty-three percent of employers use social networking sites to research job candidates, up from 39 percent last year and 36 percent in 2012. Additionally, 12 percent of employers don￢ﾀﾙt currently research candidates on social media, but plan to start, according to the national survey, which was conducted online by Harris Poll on behalf of CareerBuilder from February 10 to March 4, 2014, and included a representative sample of 2,138 hiring managers and human resource professionals, and a representative sample 3,022 full-time, private sector w http://www.careerbuilder.com/share/aboutus/pressreleasesdetail.aspx?id=pr829&sd=6/26/2014&ed=06/26/2014