Job applicants' online musings get hard look

The Boston Globe reports:

Lis Riba says she learned about indiscreet blogging the hard way.

In October 2002, after an interview for a job at a nonprofit, she said, someone at the organization read her blog, where she had broadcast to the world that she wasn't actually all that interested in the job and didn't plan to stay for even a year if she were hired.

No offer was forthcoming.

On a routine check of her server logs, she found that somebody from the nonprofit's site read her blog after her interview. ''I really believe I lost that job offer because of careless blogging," said Riba, 35, of Melrose. ''It was something I hadn't considered, and it taught me a lesson about discretion."

Your future employer really wants information on you.