Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Your Google Results & your job search

Your personal Google search results, are extremely important during your job search... and even in every day life. For example, I Google people all the time to get to know more about them.

Dan Schawbel , the author of Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success, makes the point that your Google results are your "resume" professionally and personally, HOW TO: Take Control of Your Google Search Results . If you think of yourself as a brand, and you should, then you have to take control of the information that is easily available about you. It takes a bit of work, and being "creative" but it's very important to make sure that there is information about you, and most importantly, that its accurate.

I have started to think of myself more as a "brand", and am think of how to successfully "brand myself" - now that is trickier......

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