Would a minimum age help?

[Indy]

If you think about it, going on BB is like the extreme version of posting your drunken, semi-nude party pics on fb and tumblr. People may generally be forgotten 6 months after the show, but what they've done, including every thread about them on every forum and every YT clip featuring them, will be there forever for future employers, in-laws, and eventually their children to google.

It may be it's more noticeable this time because so many of the HM's aren't even 21 yet, but a lot of them are going to have some long-lasting regrets after this show. The older HM's still act up, but they do it in ways that won't be potentially as career killing down the road. Shiv's blow-up with Adam won't be nearly as likely to keep her from getting a job someday as Becky's tantrums and blatant lying for attention will. It's not just the initial question of their own behavior as a potential employee, but the baggage that comes with them, since they are never completely forgotten by everyone.

[serensilver]

no i dont think it would older housemates are just as likely to "regret" (if you like) their actions as much as younger ones...

[Scream]

I think it will get most of them more jobs.

[Indy]

I think it will get most of them more jobs.

There's a niche for everyone, even Becky, but people will only pay you to take your clothes off so many times before they get bored.

[kistar]

Like your future boss is going to google your name? hilarious!

[Marsh.]

You still get the Lea's and the Lisa's. Far worse than any teenager.

[Indy]

Like your future boss is going to google your name? hilarious!

Standard practice
"70% of U.S. companies say they have disqualified candidates based on what they find online when they do those searches. That same survey found that only 7% of U.S. consumers think their online footprint affects their job search." (http://blogs.sciencemag.org/sciencecareers/2010/03/employers-consi.html)
"The survey, commissioned by Microsoft and released earlier this year, included interviews with recruiters, hiring managers, human resources professionals, and consumers in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and France. There were some notable differences in responses across the countries; for example, 41% of hiring managers in the U.K., 16% in Germany, and 14% in France said they've disqualified candidates base on what they've found out about the candidate online."
It's been going on for years. People naive enough to think it doesn't happen are also the ones most likely to not get hired due to it.

[Kieran]

I think it works in reverse. Producers select "clean skins" who have no previous skeletons in the closet.

[kistar]

Standard practice
"70% of U.S. companies say they have disqualified candidates based on what they find online when they do those searches. That same survey found that only 7% of U.S. consumers think their online footprint affects their job search." (http://blogs.sciencemag.org/sciencecareers/2010/03/employers-consi.html)
"The survey, commissioned by Microsoft and released earlier this year, included interviews with recruiters, hiring managers, human resources professionals, and consumers in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and France. There were some notable differences in responses across the countries; for example, 41% of hiring managers in the U.K., 16% in Germany, and 14% in France said they've disqualified candidates base on what they've found out about the candidate online."
It's been going on for years. People naive enough to think it doesn't happen are also the ones most likely to not get hired due to it.


I dont think they are talking about appearances on reality tv shows !!!

[WozMan]

There's a niche for everyone, even Becky, but people will only pay you to take your clothes off so many times before they get bored.

Who'd pay Becky to get her clothes off?? :yuk:

Seriously though she could always play one of the ugly sisters or some other panto villian...

[Kizzy]

I think it works in reverse. Producers select "clean skins" who have no previous skeletons in the closet.

Not ex american gangsters?...

[Razor]

A minimum IQ might be a better place to start, anything over 70 would be a good improvement on some housemates. :D

[ElProximo]

It won't help but let me push for it again:
Something nearer to a reflection of society. Two porn star 'parents' barely 40 wasn't going to do it.

And FINE if you want half the house 20-somethings but divide the other half into other generations.
Yes, I understand few 60 year old are applying but then again making 'Summer Pool Party' and you won't get them either.

And yes, there is some real questions about the 'FB Phenom' and Reality Shows holding your personality 'hostage'.
Look at it something like this:
In a previous generation. Yes, you may very well have horrifying puerile moments, you did a perverse thing at that Uni party,
vomited out the window. twice.
had a ridiculous fight with a rival moron,
flashed your junk,
and,
you were allowed to become 30 years old and just cringe if an eye-witness former schoolmate bumped into you. (they did the same).

Now, we have 30 year olds today who sit at home with their new wife, new job and WATCH as current programmes look back on previous seasons (them 21) and replay, in HD, slow-motion, big-screen detail what 'they are like'.

We might have done some serious damage to our society.

[Indy]

I dont think they are talking about appearances on reality tv shows !!!

Because 10 years from now, when a potential employer googles Caroline's name, nothing BB related will come up? Very naive.