How To Look Professional After College
Are you currently a part of any social networking site? Have you posted all those personal details of your life in Facebook, Orkut, MySpace, YouTube, or BlogSpot? These could range from rowdy shout-outs to the ins and outs of your relationship status, perhaps photos which show you drunk at some party, etc…
After graduating from college, you might have found yourself closing shop from these web sites because of the information they yield potential employers. No need for your would-be bosses to see your life story on display.
You might also find yourself deleting any emails and blogs as these can be forwarded or read anytime.
These people are not hallucinating it. In fact, there are evidence to show that head hunters do research through the internet search engines to gather information on employment candidates and puts the information on an archive for future use.
This practice is making the growing crowd of new graduates with social networking sites uneasy, for sure. After all, it’s most likely that most, if not all, are members of at least one site. And many memories, good and bad, exist in those pages.
Many schools are now orienting students on the importance of maintaining a professional profile when they join a social networking site. Even e-mail and blogs have to be written out with this in mind. You never know who will stumble upon the things you write or post.
A survey by AfterCollege.com contends that out of 60 students, 70% continued to post the same kind of messages on the social networking sites which might be read by potential employers.
And out of 90 employers, 20% of these say they use social networking sites to do a background check on their candidates. Some 6% used this background check as a basis for not hiring a candidate while a considerable 26% made no comment to the survey question.
According to Roberto Angulo from AfterCollege.com. students should be concerned about what they post online.
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