How Employers Evaluate Job Seekers

College graduation is upon us, which means thousands of bright-eyed recent graduates are beginning their job search. Each job seeker must recognize that his or her online reputation, how he or she is perceived online, will play a major role in their ability to land a job. The dynamics of searching for a job have [...]

Spring Cleaning Your Online Profiles

Now that it’s finally heating up, pools are beginning to open, and everything is no longer blanketed by allergenic pollen , it is time to do some spring cleaning. Once you have finished a deep clean of your house, focus on your online profiles. Whether you are a recent graduate who is embarking on a [...]

How to Keep From Looking Like a Fool Online

Despite the multitude of websites that show people when they are acting like fools online, including We Know What You Are Doing (learn more) and the newly created Fire Me, individuals continue to make mistakes online that affect their job security, relationship status, and online reputation. Even though today is April Fool’s Day and you [...]

The Social Job Search

The rise of social media has dramatically changed the way modern job seekers find, apply for, and are considered for job openings. Companies are tweeting their open jobs instead of listing them on job boards and job applicants are showcasing their talents on personal blogs and reaching out to hiring managers on social media resume [...]

Personal Reputation Management

Reputation management is a practice that more and more businesses are using to manage their business reputation as comments left on social media profiles, negative online reviews, and PR crises can all damage the reputation of a company. If you are like most individuals, you do not have members of the press slandering your name [...]

How to Remove Negative Content

When negative content shows up about you online, the effects can be catastrophic to your online reputation. Whether it is something as simple as a grammatically incorrect post made in the comments section of a blog, or a news article that connects you to a crime, you will want to remove negative content before it [...]

3 Tips to Clean Up Your Online Dating Profile

Recently we wrote about how to clean up your social media reputation on sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Today we are focusing on how individuals can manage their reputation by keeping their online dating profiles clean. Online dating sites do big business, with match.com alone bringing in 29 million viewers so far this year. [...]

Twitter Clean Up

As a follow-up to our popular post, Clean up Your Online Profile, we have created a blog series about cleaning up online profiles. Today we will provide tips for a successful: Twitter Clean Up The major social media networks have often been described in this way: Facebook is what you use to keep in touch [...]

Marketing with LinkedIn

As a follow-up to our popular post, Clean up Your Online Profile, we have created a blog series about cleaning up online profiles.  Today’s post focuses on cleaning up your LinkedIn so that you will achieve effective: Marketing with LinkedIn The internet has completely changed the way we socialize, with Facebook and Twitter being some of the [...]

Cleaning up Facebook

As a follow-up to our popular post, Clean up Your Online Profile, we have created a blog series about cleaning up online profiles. Today’s topic:  Cleaning up Facebook                Facebook started as a site for college kids to socialize with their friends, but these days it is not uncommon for [...]