{"id":1493,"date":"2009-09-14T15:37:49","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T20:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2009-09-14T23:04:59","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T04:04:59","slug":"job-hunters-clean-up-your-online-profiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2009\/09\/14\/job-hunters-clean-up-your-online-profiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Job Hunters: Clean Up Your Online Profiles!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code>[kml_flashembed movie=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QbHIYS0VKTo\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" wmode=\"transparent\" \/]<\/code><\/p>\n<p>I had an opportunity to speak to Fox 8 News in Cleveland awhile back about how job hunters can clean up their online profiles via social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook or Twitter.  Here&#8217;s the video &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>My advice:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Privatize Your Profile<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Set your Facebook profile to private and enable \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Protect my updates\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in Twitter.  This requires potential recruiters to get your approval before they can access your updates. <\/li>\n<li><strong>Check Your Content<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Take a look at the photos, text and comments on your page through the eyes of a potential employer.   Remove any negative references to past employers and\/or frustrations with work.  Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t forget that poor grammar and high amounts of slang can also work against you.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Google Yourself<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Once you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve cleaned up your online presence, run searches on your name on Google, Yahoo and Bing in order to check for any remaining negative content that may still be seen by potential employers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[kml_flashembed movie=&#8221;http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QbHIYS0VKTo&#8221; width=&#8221;450&#8243; height=&#8221;350&#8243; wmode=&#8221;transparent&#8221; \/] I had an opportunity to speak to Fox 8 News in Cleveland awhile back about how job hunters can clean up their online profiles via social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook or Twitter. Here&#8217;s the video &#8230; My advice: Privatize Your Profile \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Set your Facebook profile to private &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2009\/09\/14\/job-hunters-clean-up-your-online-profiles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Job Hunters: Clean Up Your Online Profiles!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4,15],"tags":[91,232,74,235,66,42,231,236,454,75,233,234,189],"class_list":["post-1493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","category-videos","tag-agent","tag-careers","tag-cleveland","tag-facebook","tag-fox-8","tag-geek-squad","tag-jobs","tag-myspace","tag-news","tag-ohio","tag-resumes","tag-social-networks","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1516,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions\/1516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}