Surprise? Find Yourself Online

I consider myself moderately savvy when it comes to social media. Several months ago, I went to check my name online to see what potential employers would find. I put my name into Google and guess what I found, one of my daughter’s pages. She had named it after me thinking that no one would ever look for me online. Surprise, surprise.

To look for your potential surprises, go to Google and type in your name. Try a couple of different iterations, full first and full last, first initial and full last. Click through the entries (all the pages). You want to see everything that is found. No surprises, thank you.

If you have a common name, that can be a good or a bad thing. A potential employer may not be able to find you (good or bad?) If you WANT the employer to find you, you are going to need to make it easy for them. Include all your contact links on your resume and in the signature line of your emails.

In addition, I think it is good to think carefully about what information you want to show. Not only can employers find you but so can spammers and sales people of all sorts. Protect yourself. My next blog will talk more about security.

My contact links:
http://www.hellinthehallway.net
http://twitter.com/dmourey
http://www.linkedin.com/in/deborahmourey
http://www.google.com/profiles/deborah.mourey

Other place to look for yourself.
• Facebook http://www.facebook.com
• Zoominfo http://www.zoominfo.com
• Spoke http://www.spoke.com
• Pipl http://www.pipl.com

If you know other places to research your online presence, please comment.

Fun and Interesting Free/Inexpensive Things to Do In Rochester
I love public art. Remember “Horses on Parade”? Rochester was alive with public art. If you like graffiti, sculpture, stained glass and more. Look at this site. Some of our own local talent, many of whom have world wide reputations, are represented. See Wendell Castle, Albert Paley, Paul Knoblauch and many others.
http://www.rochesterpublicart.com/public_art/?page=1