<p>"Attention all job seekers: Think again before posting a “tweet” or Facebook picture your next interviewer might be watching.</p>
<p>The number of companies using social networking Web sites to screen potential employees has doubled in the last year, and what they have found has killed the hire for more than a third of candidates, according to a CareerBuilder report.</p>
<p>Its survey of more than 2,600 hiring managers found that 45 percent are searching sites to research job candidates, up from 22 percent a year ago. Another 11 percent say they plan to start using social networking sites for screening.</p>
<p>Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace are the top sites being screening, but 11 percent of employers are searching blogs and 7 percent are following job applicants Twitter postings.</p>
<p>It says 35 percent of employers decided not to hire someone because of what they found out about them on these sites.</p>
<p>Top reasons for choosing not to hire a candidate based on their social networking content include posting inappropriate photographs, content about them drinking or using drugs, bad-mouthing previous employers or clients and showing poor communications skills."
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