Question: Please answer both questions thoroughly. DO NOT use another experts previous answers. Thank you. Karen Johnston is a 5 5 - year - old director

Please answer both questions thoroughly. DO NOT use another experts previous answers. Thank you.
Karen Johnston is a 55-year-old director of a small health planning agency in an urban area of
the South. Her agency employs a total of 18 staff members, most of whom are female. As a
graduate of the MBA program with a Healthcare concentration, she has been an active alumnus of
that program at the local state university. She also serves as chairperson of the Community
Advisory Board (CAB) for the program and has taken two student interns a year for her agency over
the past eight years. The CAB advises the program faculty concerning curriculum, accreditation
issues, internships, job placements, scholarships, etc.
Recently, Johnston was asked by the program's internship director to select one master's
student intern for the upcoming fall semester and she agreed to do so. He then forwarded to her
the resumes of three students for her consideration as he had done in the past. Previously, she had
considered grade point average, previous work experience, and career goals in making her decision
concerning who to interview and who to select for the internship.
This time she decided to also see if any of the internship candidates had posted profiles on social
media Web sites such as Facebook, Twitter, or Linkedln. To her surprise, all three (one male and
two females) had posted profiles on at least one of these social media Web sites. Two of the three
posted information regarding their student extracurricular activities, work activities, family, and
friends. Karen found those to be helpful in helping her form a more complete picture of the
internship applicant. However, the third profile posted on Facebook by one of the female applicants
shocked her. She found semi-nude pictures, allusions to heavy drinking, and a comment that Lisa
"was looking for a hot guy to bring out my wild side."
Johnston immediately called the internship coordinator and told him that she would like to
interview the first two students and would select one for the internship. However, she told him that
the third applicant should never have been allowed into the masters program and that he needed to
have a long "heart-to-heart" talk with her if she was to have a future in the field of health services
administration. She also suggested that this student might be counseled to seek employment in
another field altogether. Then when the CAB met, Johnston described her experience to the faculty
and executive board members. When the program director explained that faculty have little control
over the personal lives of students, Johnston suggested that perhaps they need to counsel
students concerning "professional behavior."
1. What lessons can you draw from this case regarding how students, employers, and faculty can use social media such as Facebook during the recruitment and selection process?
2. What policies, if any, should employers develop concerning the use of social media for various purposes, including employee recruitment and selection?
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