Take a close look at your facebook or myspace page from an outside prospective. What types of pictures are posted? Would you be comfortable with someone from your company or a potential employer viewing your profile? If not please clean it up! What type of music do you add to your Myspace page? You can be certain that employers are checking you online persona and including what they find in their hiring decision. Even if your page is block or set to private, do you know everyone you are connected to and who they are connected too? Are you willing to take the risk? Have you done a thorough Google search on yourself to see what appears when someone does a key word search with your name? Check your Flickr, YouTube, LinkedIn, Ning, Twitter and etc accounts. Make sure they are not hurting your personal brand.
Protect your online image. Be careful with the information you post about yourself on the internet. My advice is if anything is attached to your name (your brand) keep it professional. I am very active in the social networking and media scene. I choose carefully what information I post about myself and the people I connect and add to my network and you should too. Yes, I recommend that you use social media but do not forget that anyone may be looking. The wrong pictures and information posted about you could lead to a damage brand.
Just like a brand for a product can be ruin so can yours. Your brand is something to protect and cherish. You are the one that can build and maintain it. Be sure you are making the right decisions. Your brand is the only one you have so don’t let others destroy it. Do not be careless with it. Just like a brand for a product once it is destroyed it is almost impossible to restore back to what it was.
Comments
Jessica
Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:55:26
Hey Rita,
It is great to see your recent posts to your blogs. Are you considering writing for the Examiner again? Also I will be in touch about speaking at an event in April.
There was a time when jobseekers pored over the " Recruitment / Hiring " sections of newspapers, searching for suitable jobs, for hours-on-end.
Then, with the arrival of internet , came job-portals, which were amongst the earliest websites.
Whereas considerable refinements have taken place in respect of resume-posting and resume-searching, job-searches have largely remained the same – with the jobseekers having to spend an enormous amount of time online.
I have tried to simplify and speed-up job-searches thru Magic Cube Job-Search on www.CustomizeResume.com
No “ Rocket – Science “ this !
One of these days, someone is bound to come-up with even better " Geodesic Job – Search" which will have jobs listed on hundreds of faces against only 3 faces of Magic Cube – till someone cleverer makes job-search obsolete thru a personal job-search agent !
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