Googled by Employers
13Oct2004 Filed under: LinkageInsideGoogle: When Employers Google You, It Can Hurt Your Chances
Nathan’s advice on how to deal with being Googled by future employees stands in contradiction to what has been the common theory of, “Keep your blog anonymous: you don’t want employers finding you.” Nathan’s suggestion is the opposite:
The secret to controlling your Google search results is to write the content yourself. If you have a blog, it is virtually guaranteed to be the number one result for your name, as long as you have been writing it for a while.
See? Having a blog can help you get a job.
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Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, was published last year.
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