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Miranda Shaw was stymied. She had been on the verge of hiring a highly talented recent business school graduate, Rick Parson, as a senior analyst for her project team. It had been a choice between Parsons and Deborah Jones, another very promising hire. Both Parsons and Jones had graduated from the same highly ranked business school that Shaw attended, had the appropriate work background, and ad performed well in their multiple rounds of interviews. From conversations, Shaw believe wither one would be a good choice for the company. While she had a hard time deciding, she was leaning toward hiring Parsons because of the leadership skills and his reputation for tireless energy and great communication skills. Before making her denial decision, Shae-almost in desperation, because she needed to submit her recommendation to human resources immediately-had “Googled” both of the candidates. What she had discovered about Parsons both on-line and at Faceebook.com, while not necessarily a deal breaker, was disturbing enough she had to rethink her opinion.

She was a manager at a leading consulting firm. She had worked her way up from the intern after four years and was on the fast track to making partner. Her company was a special place and as she seen over the last few years, it took a special type of consultant to work there. She remembered plenty cases where new hires left the company in the first few months because they did not fit in with the high-energy and high-commitment work environment. She had seem several projected delayed or worse, because of personnel issues. This high turnover was not good for the company because it invested significant time, energy, and funds to train and mentor n whores. Shaw believed in the adage that “you are only as good as the people who work for you,” and she knew that making the right hiring decisions was critical to her success at the firm. Shaw had to takes these factors into consideration as she decided between tow equally qualified candidates for the positon.

In her web search, Shaw initially impressed with Parsons. He was obviously very involved in nonprofit work and had won a number of community service awards. But she then discovered his Facebook page and found herself quite dismayed. There were several picture of Parsons with his fraternity brothers; in most, they were drinking, smoking cigarette, and in his own words—“smoking blunts.” This term, Shaw learned after a little research, meant smoking cigars hollowed out and stuffed with marijuana. She then turned Google efforts to Jones. She did not discover any personal information about Jones, nor did she find Jones on Facebook. There were only work-related sites that listed Jones as effective project member. Shaw sighed in Dismay. She had been poised, only an hour earlier, to submit her recommendation to hire Parsons. Now she was not sure what to do.

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Facebook Case Analysis The case scenario as outlined clearly shows the grave issues that Miranda Shaw faces in her decision making process As much as she generally knows Rick Parsons as a well talente... View the full answer