"Shark Tank" host and business leader Kevin O'Leary explained that student protesters should be concerned about their job prospects in an interview, Wednesday. "If you‘re burning down something, or taking a flag down, or fighting with police — I‘m sorry, you‘re trashing your personal brand," O'Leary said of students caught on camera protesting. O'Leary explained that like most corporations, he hires a firm to check into the background of potential hires.
" Whether students are aware or not, O'Leary said, high-resolution surveillance cameras that can shoot in "low light conditions" make it relatively easy for companies to scour the internet to find video or images of job candidates. Companies call it a "deep dark search," O'Leary said. Unlike in previous generations of student protests over the Vietnam War, the investor said, the footage of students is no longer "grainy" and low quality.