Microsoft survey: Online 'reputation' counts

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Looking for a new or better job? Maybe you should delete those old pictures from your Facebook page first. You remember, from that long-ago spring break that show you dressed in a lamp shade and little else.

A new Microsoft-funded survey of 2,500 recruiting professionals and consumers in four major developed nations found that online reputation is important -- very important.

The survey, conducted in December by Cross-tab Marketing Services, found that 70 percent of human resources and recruiting professionals in the U.S. had rejected job candidates due to what they found regarding those individuals online.