Dealbreakers: The Internet & You
Seriously, people, are you trying to tell me everyone hasn’t gotten the word about potential employers (and internship coordinators) doing searches to see what turns up on the web about job candidates? Or is it that we do not understand the types of things that may damage our chances in the job market?
Obviously, we know that if your Facebook or MySpace page is all about how you drink your face off six nights a week or offhandedly mentions that you’ve been trying out petty crimes in your spare time just for kicks, that would affect your employment prospects.
Here are some other problem postings on public pages:
Describing yourself as “moody”— or having your friends describe you that way. Nobody – and I mean NOBODY- wants to knowingly hire someone who is moody. You wouldn’t either. Think about it.
Badmouthing or gossiping about your current or past employer or job.
References to – or pictures of – your bad behavior on other people’s pages. The search engines are pretty sophisticated. Plug in your full name and see what comes up. You might be surprised.
So if you want to avoid unknowingly ruling yourself out for jobs, you have two choices – make your page private so only your friends can know that much about you (and get your friends to do the same for pages that reference you) or clean up the content.
Regardless, get over the moodiness or learn to hide it. That won’t fly in the work world no matter how good you are at your job.
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Photo by Mikey G Ottawa.
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