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 [...]

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 [...]

Protect Your Online Reputation this Halloween

Halloween is right around the corner. Do you have your costume planned? Have you stocked up on candy to appease kids in your neighborhood? While this American holiday is synonymous with free candy, wild costumes, and innocent debauchery, one Halloween mistake could affect your online reputation. Why is an online reputation important? When the individual [...]

Social Media Reputation

Today is the final day of Privacy Awareness Week 2012, so hopefully you have picked up on many tips for improving your online privacy and managing your online reputation through our blog posts or the articles we have shared and re-tweeted on Twitter (@Reputation911.) All week we ran a blog series that dealt with cleaning [...]

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 [...]

How to Use Social Media for Online Reputation Management

Social media can be used in more ways than just communicating with your friends and family. Some social media sites create personal pages and get more traffic than the average website. Using the same search engine optimization strategies as optimizing a website, you can repurpose certain sites to help you take control of your first [...]