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Lis Riba of Melrose, shown with husband Ian Osmond, says she believes she lost a job offer because of careless blogging. She has since set a policy against revealing sensitive information.

Job applicants' online musings get hard look

By Diane E. Lewis
Globe Staff / March 30, 2006

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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 ... (Full article: 940 words)

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