Tips: How Employers Are using social media to discriminate against applicants

Employers may not be able to ask you about your religious or ethnic background to discriminate against you but they may be getting that information from your social media profiles instead. While there are company policies in place that may prevent employers from asking these questions in an interview, these policies may not include employers being able to retrieving this information online. Check out results from the Carnegie Mellon University and see how an experiment involving dummy résumés and social media profiles found how firms might discriminate against applicants. Read more at the Wall Street Journal.