I just read another article about an increasing number of hiring managers and recruiters googling potential candidates. Laurie Smith wrote in a recent blog, “It behooves us all to constantly monitor what is floating around in cyberspace about us, and proactively work to ensure good press.” (see http://careerhub.typepad.com/main/2007/07/employment-back.html)

Each time you enter information in a website, respond to a blog, or are quoted in a website, information may be entering the web that will show up on you when googled. So, be careful! Many candidates do not proceed with candidates in the hiring process because of what showed up when googled.

Kirsten Dixson encourages all of us to google ourselves on a weekly basis so that if digital dirt shows up, we can take steps to cover it up. For more information how to cover digital dirt on yourself, be reading upcoming blogs or email me at terri@summitviewcareercoaching.com.

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