Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Time:
4:15 pm EST/1:15 pm PST
Session length: 60 minutes
Career expert Richard Bolles, author of What Color Is Your Parachute, made the observation in 2009 that “Google is the new resume.” Whether we like it or not, and most of us do NOT like it, he is right.
Too many of us equate having an online reputation with giving up our privacy. As someone who has been preaching about online privacy protection for more than ten years, I fully understand and support that need. However, ignoring online reputation - a very different thing - is a very big mistake!
Employed or job hunting, we all need to pay close attention to what Google results tell the world about us – or about someone else with the same name – because it has more impact than we know on our job search and on our careers.
Well-funded and extensive research in late 2009 showed:
- 79% of recruiters research job applicants online “always or most of the time” before moving forward.
- 71% of job seekers are “not very or not at all concerned” about their online reputations.
- Over 50% of recruiters had rejected an applicant based on concerns resulting from what they found.
Well worth noting is that 86% of employers remembered being positively influenced by something they found in their research about an applicant.
The bottom line: You are hurt or helped by what is attached to your name in an employer’s online research, even if the information is wrong.
In this session, learn how to monitor and manage your online reputation to avoid being blind-sided by someone else’s misdeeds or your own carelessness.
Presented by:
Job-Hunt.org Job Search Expert
With an undergraduate degree in education, Susan P. Joyce made her first career adjustment just after graduation turning from teaching high school American history to the less stressful work of officer in the United States Marine Corps (career # 2). Post-USMC (layoff # 1), and finding no demand in Boston for someone who could identify Soviet tanks and missile revetments, Susan made another career adjustment turning from intelligence gathering and analysis to HR and IT. She spent several years working in the Personnel Office at Harvard University and in a compensation consulting firm. After earning an MBA from Boston University, she spent 13 years in corporate America (career # 3) before being laid off (layoff # 2) in 1994, at the dawn of the Internet revolution.
Founding NETability, Inc. (career # 4) in 1995, Susan has been heavily involved in Web development and has taught and spoken about online job search, online recruiting, SEO, and Web development in numerous venues, including colleges, adult education, industry conferences, job search support groups, job clubs, and PodCamp. In 1998, NETability acquired Job-Hunt.org, a well-known directory of Internet resources which Susan has been editing and growing since then.
Beginning in 2008, Susan has focused full-time on content development and management for Job-Hunt.org (career # 5). Recognized as Forbes Best of the Web for Job Hunting since 2002 and singled out by US News & World Report in 2006 as a top site for finding work, Job-Hunt is one of the most comprehensive employment portals on the Web, a favorite of Richard (What Color Is Your Parachute) Bolles. Job-Hunt offers job seekers links to over 17,000 employer recruiting pages, associations, networking resources, job search, and career resources. In addition, Susan tweets to over 21,000 followers as @JobHuntOrg, manages the 4,000+ member Job-Hunt Help LinkedIn Group, runs several very popular Twitter Lists, and oversees BusinessWeek.com’s Business Exchange Veterans’ Job Search Topic. In her spare time, Susan tries, usually unsuccessfully, to avoid her computer and BlackBerry.
