Have you deactivated your Facebook account due to embarrassing photos or false rumors? Looking for a job? Well, while you may know that you’re ready for society’s expectations, your profile may say otherwise. Potential bosses will google your name to check your resume or get a personal sense of who you are. Many times people don’t realize how much of their online data is public like their Facebook profile. Online reputation management protects your image so that you are presented in the most respected and professional manner. Think of it as your online dress code. You don’t want to be seen in informal clothes when your applying for a job. Sure you trust your friends, but are any of them potential bosses or coworkers. You don’t want to be blackmailed. Anything could happen, it just takes one little argument or conflict of interest and there goes your career into the fire pit. While your online information can never be completely removed, it can be removed from the top of the google search results. Try googling your name and see what comes up. I bet you’ll be surprised at how much a stranger can know about you from a simple name search. Not only may you disagree with the results, but your potential boss will take them seriously. It will mean one less unsatisfactory worker to deal with and the end of a wasted hiring process. When you’re just a number out of many applicants, the making or breaking of a job can come down to your online reputation. Even if you happen to know your boss, the company may not sit well with personal mishaps of your night out. One picture of you being drunk will equate to you being a drunk. This is one of the most common things that friends share for the humorous reactions toward it. Hire an online reputation manager so that the fun doesn’t become seriously wrong.
About The Author
This guest post was written by Aaron Fischer, one of the partners at Reputation Solvers, the premier Reputation Management Company.
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