Banks are watching your social media - here are 5 things to avoid if you want a career in finance
Especially if you want to work in finance.
Banks and hedge funds are increasingly checking social media accounts of potential hires to see if they will be a responsible, sober employee.
Investors are employing the same techniques to decide who gets to manage their money. They often look for specific personality traits and psychological profiles before trusting a person with their wealth.
Specialist firms carry out the checks and Business Insider spoke to one of them - Corporate Resolutions - to find out what triggers the biggest and brightest red flags. The company, based in New York, was set up by a former FBI agent.
"We cruise social networking sites to ensure the potential executive or money-manager is not commenting on or posting pictures," that potential employers would find distasteful, Joelle Scott, a senior vice president at Corporate Resolutions, said.
Sites like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram offer a huge repository of public information about private people. Here's what companies like Corporate Resolutions look at.