Google is your new resume, and you’d better know what’s on it. It’s not vain to Google yourself; it’s smart. Why? Because it’s pretty much guaranteed that there’s information about you on at least a few websites, and hiring managers, potential dates, and complete strangers are looking you up and forming opinions of you based on your search results. Both your
online privacy and your future career could be at risk.
And even though
you may not know what’s out there about you, other people do. While roughly
57% of people have searched for themselves,
86% of male and 61% of female hiring managers review a job searcher’s online info.
