How To Look Professional After College

Posted on September 7, 2010
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If you’ve ever joined any social networking site like Facebook, MySpace, Orkut, or BlogSpot, then you’re familiar with posting details of your life online to update your family and friends about your status. These posts could range from simple text, personal photos of an event, or videos.

Recently, it has been observed that new graduates from universities and colleges choose to terminate their connection to all their contacts on the social network community even before starting to apply for work.

You might also find yourself deleting any emails and blogs as these can be forwarded or read anytime.

As more and more companies get online savvy, HR departments are using these social networking sites to research their potential hires. In fact, it’s becoming common practice to Google an applicant for an instant background check.

Just imagining these companies going through your personal life and information is sure to make anybody cringe. As much as you want your family and friends to know how you are doing, you also don’t want any stranger knowing the ins and outs of your life.

Faculties of respectable colleges and universities recommend to their graduates to create a businesslike image on their personal social networking websites, even emails and blogs. You cannot depend on passwords because head hunters have a lot of contacts that can get through or within your group.

A survey by AfterCollege.com contends that out of 60 students, 70% continued to post the same kind of messages on the social networking sites which might be read by potential employers.

Around eighteen out of ninety possible employers from the same study do go out of their way searching the internet for information on the candidates for employment. Five from the group have experienced refusing employment to a candidate after study the information they have gathered from the internet, while a little less than twenty four refuse to comment on their stand.

As a closing recommendation, Roberto Angulo of AfterCollege.com states that graduating students should take measures to be careful what they post online.

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