Do not get the wrong identity online sabotage your job search and career

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The Internet has changed our lives in many ways, but perhaps most important is the loss of anonymity. In the past, when we. Not of public life, we do not worry about confusion

For actors, the rules of the Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists - ensuring that no two actors share the same name. There can be many actors with the name "Jim Jones", but their screen names are always unique. So when managers undertake "James Earl Jones" exactly who they are, the adjustment know.

Now the rest of us are dealing with this issue in the age of search engines and social media - but the Screen Actors Guild, to ensure that each of us has a unique identity.

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The cost and expense of hiring someone to be the one "bad hire" and the number of jobseekers could be examined (average avoid 250 people gathered on the job occur), employers are using search engines to search candidates. You try to separate the qualified candidates for the absolute.

The Internet has so effectively all of us at least brought us to the search engines and social networks a little famous. Therefore, on what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas over. If what happens in Vegas on social media, blogs, or any other part of the population that may have happened in Vegas to be found on Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo and other search engines. And you can stay there for a long time.

Visibility in the search engines is a potential problem for all of us. Even if you have lived a perfect life, always follow the rules and never do anything to draw negative attention to yourself, you can still have a problem with false identity online . For what? Because another person with the same name - perhaps to do something that might scare off potential employers - or very close together.

Here is how to manage "the same name" problem

The short answer is, first, to find a clean version of his name ("digital dirt" accompanying person), and secondly, to use this version of your name on your LinkedIn profile resume, e-mail, maps, presentation and other professionals and visibility of documents (online and offline).

1 Search multiple versions of your online name - all the versions that you have used in the past, or maybe you should in the future. Put quotes around the name, like this - "name" - to make research more efficient.

Consider the first two or three pages of search results to see what you find. If you are lucky, you will be fine. But if you are like the rest of us, you will find some things that give pause to the employer could see.

• Look for bad behavior of another person with the same name. Each pedophiles, tax evaders, and others who do not want anything for your future boss (or client). Avoid a version of the name should lead anyone to confuse you with the transgressors.
• Check your own electronic tracks. Which versions of the name you used in political ruin or fans of professional baseball team do you hate? He has pictures from the party or inappropriate on your Facebook page or other social networks published videos? If you can, clean their questionable activities, or avoid this version of his name for his professional career.

. 2 Select the most of their own names for their professional visibility version if you have a problem with a version of his name, try a different version - add your initial or middle name. Change "Robert" to "Bob" or "Bet" to "Elisabeth", to a relatively clean version of his name.

3 Updating their jobs / accounts and records for the new name of the professional criteria. Reclaiming own name with your LinkedIn profile. Then update all job-search documents, such as your resume, with my name. Use in other profiles "social" Google Plus, Twitter, Pinterest, and. Do not put your name on legal documents to change. Just a specific version for your career.

Furthermore, to keep your name in the future

Monitor all releases of his name, but the professional version to monitor closely. Someone can have a negative impact on its behalf in the future, so the best you can do is pay attention to what is associated with your name. I call it "googling defensive" (instead of "vanity Google") because it is an intelligent defense strategy now.

Consider whether your name was "Lee Oswald" and you have been looking for a job in 1963 when a man named "Lee Harvey Oswald" has become very clear that the man accused of the assassination of President Kennedy. The media used the man's full name in order to "protect the innocent." If that were to happen today, everyone (the name provided, not with a "H" start) should be named Lee Oswald immediately add your middle initial of his name or professional name, which somehow understand that they are not accused murderer.

Make this part of your weekly or monthly routine, and set up Google Alerts online in different versions of his name. We all need to pay attention to the protection of online reputation and avoid. Frequent problem of false identity online