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title: "Internet Interview"
description: "Slightly more than one-in-ten adult internet users say they have used a search engine to find information about someone they are thinking about hiring or working with."
date: "2008-04-18"
authors:
  - name: "Russell Heimlich"
    job_title: "Former web developer"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/russell-heimlich/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2008/04/18/internet-interview/"
---

# Internet Interview

Employers and others who may influence a decision to hire someone have begun to turn to the Web as part of the reference-checking process, with one-in-ten (11%) having gathered information through a web search.However, the potential for candidate research goes both ways; prospective employees can also find out more about places where they are interviewing for jobs, who their co-workers might be, and what praise or complaints former employees may have shared online. [Read More](https://www.pewresearch.org/pubs/663/digital-footprints)