Tidy up your Online Profile

We all do embarrassing things when we are young, but at least for my generation they tended to stay in the past and away from the eyes of prospective employers, but for todays social networking generation I wonder how much of what seems like a good idea now may come back to haunt them in the future as more and more employers turn to social networking sites to find out more about potential employees.

But as ever with the Internet a new business trend is emerging to resolve this problem. Companies like ReuptationDefender will charge £20 to provide a monthly report about every piece of information about you on the Internet.

“If they find anything inaccurate, inappropriate, hurtful or slanderous, they say they can use a series of techniques to have the unwanted material removed.”

Other firms such as Naymz will manipulate the data so that favorable information is presented first.

If you want to create a positive online profile here are 10 tips on how you may achieve that:

1. Write a blog.
2. Comment on blogs.
3. Create your own social network.
4. Set up a Squidoo page.
5. Get a Naymz account.
6. Use a “proper” email address.
7. Security-check outgoing emails.
8. Use Google Alerts.
9. Get your credit references.
10. Destroy the negatives.

Ah, it was so much simpler in my day!!

Via [Telegraph]