
Careers & Jobs – Employers are increasingly using Google to run background checks on prospective candidates. Here are five easy ways to take control of your "google" and keep the results are positive!
Looks like your general run of the mill commercial advertizement to me.
Scare people into using your program to correct something that you actually have zero control over.
Individuals and or companies can post anything they want about you, and it's up to you to deny or prove them wrong.
How do you do that, by hiring an expensive legal team that may or maynot get the information corrected.
Once it's on the internet, people can basicly do what they want with it. Read it, show it to others, or using the vast methods of posting.
An excellent comment comes to mind.
If TV existed in the 1930's and 1940's, then who would have wanted to see a President remain in office in a wheel chair?
The Internet does more and allows deeper penitration into the minds and souls of any individual alive.
If a person wants to sit at the keyboard and look.
The fact is, you DO have control over what is out there when someone searches your name. It's all about being proactive and not sitting idle while other people fill the space. Information is going to be out there no matter what, and more often than not, it's up to you to take the necessary steps to make sure its (mostly) positive.
Take advantage of Netscape. Take advantage of blogs and message boards. Don't let the media fool us all into believing things like MySpace are 100% off limits to job hunters. The web represents an AMAZING opportunity to promote your personal brand.
As far as this being a commercial, we don't hide the fact that we wrote Emurse. It's a passion project for us, and is not our day jobs. Emurse is free to use for anyone who wants it. :)
I've googled my name a couple of times. So far, it has turned up the CEO of a telecom company in the UK, an accomplished nature and wildlife photagrapher, a PhD who's currently teaching at the University of Maryland and is quite well-published, a legislative and political analyst at the National Association of Public Hospitals, and a research scientist in MN! I seem to be in some distinguished company.
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Keep the results are positive... man, I'm a grammatical genius. ;)
All your base are belong to us.
;-)
"The question is, is our children learning?"
At least you're learning, AR, that spellchecker is your best friend. Good story, BTW.