Protect your online identity

You may not think that the myspace account you have can keep you from employment, but it can. Some studies show that employers will search for your name prior to an interview and the search results they find may keep you from getting your foot in the door. Plus, if potential employers search and find nothing about you, that can be even worse, especially in the tech job community.

At the Web Worker Daily, they have some tips on how to clean up your online persona and it is relatively inexpensive to do, it will however take some of your time. It will be well worth it in the long run, however.

dennis

I am a faculty member at Lansing Community College. located in Lansing, Michigan, USA. My hometown is Warren, Michigan where I grew up as the third child in my family. Sorry, I don't know Eminem ;-) I eventually came to the East Lansing/Lansing area to attend Michigan State University. After many Michigan winters and a lot of snow shoveling, I decided to move to Hawaii in 1990 to make aloha shirts for 10 months. When I returned to Michigan, I graduated with a degree in Telecommunication from MSU. As most graduates from a Big Ten university do, I went to work as a disc jockey in Lansing, then in Grand Rapids. I ended up at Lansing Community College by way of radio station WLNZ. My interests turned from radio to the Internet and brought me into teaching Internet-related courses at LCC. My wife and I have 3 kids. We are involved in our church and I still work on-air on the weekends at a Michigan radio station.

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