What Does Google Have To Say About You?
Well it’s Friday! As I was enjoying my Friday afternoon I was reading a blog on Search Engine Land today about how the court has ruled it is okay to ‘google’ your employees. Interesting…
So naturally my train of thought went to, ‘Gee if my employer ‘googled’ me what would they find?’ Well if you type in ‘cassie carson’ into Google you will find beauty contestants, InsureMe blogs, and past jobs that I had at the University of Iowa (Go Hawks!) All the information can be picked through and you can come up with my graduation date, school address, and that there are a lot of dogs named Cassie, Cassandra, and Carson. Neat...
However, it fascinated me that employers would be willing to trust what comes up as results. Out of the top ten results only 2 of them are actually me. I guess what I’m suggesting is to make sure to ‘google’ yourself before going into a job interview. There may be a story on there that you need to defend yourself for, or just let them know it’s not you! Just some food for thought...
Happy Friday – Enjoy the Weekend!
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I'd encourage you to control the conversation, rather than accepting what comes up.
If you can still grab it, get a domain with your name and put up a bio there.
Also, if you're so included, start up a personal blog in your name.
And if you author articles, put them up on ezinearticles.com or other places.
There are lots of things you can do to provide real, quality content that will help you to control your reputation.
Posted by: Shawn Collins | May 14, 2007 08:33 AM
Thanks for your comment Shawn!
Those are all great ideas.
It's very sad to be outranked by dogs let me tell you! :)
Posted by: Cassie Carson | May 14, 2007 09:23 AM