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“Go Google Yourself!”

Filed under Job Search Process, Networking
Posted by Libraries, August 30, 2007
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Hope Viner Samborn, ABA Journal, Aug. 2007, Vol. 93, Iss. 8, p56.

Did you know that your potential employers can find out a lot of personal information about you just by entering your name into a search engine? While some of this information can be beneficial in the job search (think of professional blogs, articles lauding your successes, and so forth), other details are better kept private. As one career counselor states, “The diary used to be behind the lock and key, and now it is on the Internet for everyone to read.”

The best way to protect yourself is to do exactly what your future employers are likely to do: search for your name online and try to remove anything that you “wouldn’t want your parents to see.” More difficult to control is information posted by others about you, but still, you can be careful by evaluating your online affiliations with different groups and organizations, professional and social.

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