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Clean up your online identity
I just read an article in Yahoo! Finance, and it outlines 8 things to 'steer clear' from when job-hunting. The seventh rule was what caught my attention, as it was a topic that we discussed in class: how to clean up your online identity so potential employers don't see your wild and crazy side. The article mentions a website, naymz.com, that apparently allows you to create a new profile and lists your name at the top of a google search. This way you have control over what people see when they search your name. Here's the link to the article, and below is 'Bad Rule No. 7'.
Bad Rule No. 7: Clean up your online identity
Stop stressing about the stupid stuff you posted when you were drunk (or worse, not drunk). It's out of your control.
Instead, build a more current online identity that will pop up highest when an employer or recruiter does an online background check (which about 70 percent do). One way to get your new identity to the top of the search engines is to use Naymz, a service that helps control what people find out about you online.
Another way to control what people see about you is to blog. A blog can represent you effectively to the online world, and a good blog will show up higher in searches than almost any kind of page that could damage you.
Bad Rule No. 7: Clean up your online identity
Stop stressing about the stupid stuff you posted when you were drunk (or worse, not drunk). It's out of your control.
Instead, build a more current online identity that will pop up highest when an employer or recruiter does an online background check (which about 70 percent do). One way to get your new identity to the top of the search engines is to use Naymz, a service that helps control what people find out about you online.
Another way to control what people see about you is to blog. A blog can represent you effectively to the online world, and a good blog will show up higher in searches than almost any kind of page that could damage you.
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| clintschaff | Why we don't care about 'protecting' our privacy online | 0 | Feb 16 2007, 11:55 PM EST by clintschaff | ||
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This article from New York magazine is called "Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The Greatest generation Gap since Rock and Roll." This article argues that there are significant changes in the new youngest gneration that make them not care about their online identity. Am I / are we in that generation? Interesting. I'd say that I am somewhere in between. I don't care much about hiding anything -- and don't care to hide much -- yet I don't want something silly to mess up a good opportunity.
here's the link. long, but def worth reading: http://nymag.com/news/features/27341/ |
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| mssjay | Humor lies within | 0 | Feb 13 2007, 1:52 PM EST by mssjay | ||
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About a year ago, a friend called me and lectured me on how I must immediately remove several pictures from my "myspace" page. The pictures were of some friends and I in Amsterdam posing in front of a huge Bong. Anyways, he said that his job devoted an entire day to searching myspace pages of current and prospective employees. He also stressed that not only were they searching through peoples pages, but they were actively making notes on prospective employees files. For starters I do not use my professional email address on myspace and if I am not hired due to a picture of me in Amsterdam holding a Bong, then I would have to say the employer doesn't appreciate culture and must be jealous that he/she has not been able to travel.....and is not a believer of the old saying, "When in Rome, do as the Romans." HAHAH, ok just joking. Seriously though, I find the strategy an unfair hiring tactic. Do these employers really believe that the people they hire are saints and do not have alternate lives aside from their professional lifestyles?
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| saxymaster | Online Reliability | 0 | Feb 8 2007, 4:47 PM EST by saxymaster | ||
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Thread started: Feb 8 2007, 4:47 PM EST
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If an employer knows enough about the internet to screen an applicant, than the employer most definitely knows how easy it would be for an applicant to bullshit them whether it be tampering with digital footprints or flat out lying about the facts. From what I saw working at a music publishing company was that companies, at least in the music buss, use the internet to get a general idea of something. It's more or less like going through the yearbook, seeing a picture of someone and checking out a few of their associations in clubs, sports, and how popular they were. It will be interesting to see how many online linking networks like Linkedin become credible and accurate enough sources for companies to rely on them and what kind of trust mechanisms will be built in for this to happen.
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