Social networking can be a wonderful gift while searching for a job. It can also be a horrendous burden. If an employer searches your name on Google, what are they going to see?
Before you go on to say “I deleted all of my adolescent profiles, I’m covered,” have you considered what your family and friends have posted about you? Just because your profile is private, doesn’t mean your best friend’s profile with not-so-decent photos of you plastered all over it is private. The smallest thing could make or break your career potential.
There are a few ways you can avoid being undesirable because of other accounts posts about you:
– Make it clear from here on out that you would prefer your friends and family ask permission before posting images and posts that tag you.
– Report every single photo or post that makes you look undesirable.
– There are settings on your social media profiles that give you the option whether or not people can tag you in a post.
We’ve been taught at young ages to be careful what we post on the internet, but it is difficult to monitor what other people may be posting about us. I would recommend specifically asking your friends and family to avoid tagging you in unflattering media. I have family members who had entered into the United States Army and they had asked us kindly to not post anything unflattering about them or about us because, as their family, we represent them. Have you experienced trying to censor your image online? How did you go about it?
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