To remind people to google yourselves and manage your online image!!

[MoanaMum]

I am currently recruiting for two high profile posts in our company. I've had some great CVs and applications through, but if candidates think we won't google people and check social media they are a bit naive, and unfortunately it can really change the impression a potential employer is left with. So if you are looking for jobs, take a moment to go through what your FB page looks like from an outsider, your twitter, etc and do google your name!! Just come across one which, well, just wow!!

I appear nowhere other than LinkedIn under my name. My married name throws up my former FCA authorisation and a flower that’s been given my name (not in honour of me!)

@Deadringer. Afraid not I played for
Golden State Warriors,Houston Rockets,Philadelphia Ace,Cedar Rapids Silver something

I'm annoyed that loads of photos from twitter have come up when googling my name. DCs school put stuff on their pages and I liked it and it's now all linked to my name. I know it doesn't matter and it's not harming anyone but I'm not comfortable with it.

I've deleted all photos on twitter that I've put on and I have unliked everything else. It's all still there though under my name. Is there a way to get rid of this? A couple are family photos that I added because of a twitter page that I follow.

I'm not searchable on Facebook as I have that setting where you don't show up in search engines, my FB profile is also very private. I am quoted about a baby issue that i gave a quote for in a magazinne years ago (although it seems to have been lifted for this online article) and a comment I made on a website for my illness, which I'm not thrilled about as I don't share this and don't want it linked to my name if I were to be searched. I can't delete it either.

My name seems to be more common in the US.

I am not on Twitter, FB or Linkedin. Couldn't find myself anywhere.

I am surprised your professional companies recruitment practices consider this acceptable, it puts the company at various privacy risks (what legitimate interest does the company have in viewing the facebook profile of an accountant), risks discrimination complaints, (person X discovers you chose not to interview 'cos of the social media content saying "I'm desperate for a baby" or photos of themselves outside a gay nightclub, or attending a mosque etc.)

Most companies have a more sensible policy than that (and of course many would also be going even further ensuring bias doesn't enter the recruitment process by removing names completely until later in the process than a CV screening)

Here's the sort of policy that's more typical
www.admin.ox.ac.uk/personnel/recruit/preempcheck/social_media_screening/

Facebook profile pics.
LinkedIn profile
192.com
And then a million pages relating to every parkrun I've run or volunteered at. Every race I've completed. Every set of race results I wrote up for my running club website. Strava shows where I run which I know isn't ideal in terms of locating me, but if they know my name (which is rare in UK) I'm not hard to pinpoint anyway.
Then it slides off into loads of hits on my surname in a different country where the family name originated.

So as long as a prospective employer doesn't hate runners I think I'm ok.

This presentation gave me some useful tips: www.haikudeck.com/p/827wdHtjip
I've also found DuckDuckGo to be better than Google.

@HaveSomeGrace - we were all a bit taken aback. If he'd left it to the end it would have been a bit less odd, as by then there would have been a bit of rapport, but it felt really ill-judged to start like that.

@TatianaLarina - he didn't get the job, he wasn't the best candidate (although full marks for having done his homework)

Over a dozen Facebook profiles for my name, none of which are me. Nothing in the first four Google pages is me.

With sufficient digging you might find some slightly rash and angry Usenet posts from over a decade ago. To be honest it would upset me a bit if a potential employer used that as a reason to deny the job. If I'd shoplifted a decade ago it would be a spent conviction by now; are we really a society that treats minor online indiscretions worse than actual crimes?

@Tangarine

I think I’d be somewhat unnerved by it tbh!

I share my name with someone famous, very difficult to find anything relating to me, not that there is much to find!

Nothing about me apart from an 18th birthday message in the paper from my family back in 2007. I can live with that

Nothing comes up about me at all.

Google My Name, My Town. After 5 pages, the closest I have got to finding anything about me is some sports results which may or may not list my brother.

I'd be happy for an employer to see what comes up about me, but it was good to check.

My fb etc is locked down tight (teacher) and not actually under my real full name. My real name is quite unusual.

If I google my first name surname, I get a lot of pics of someone else entirely but then several photos of groups of children I have taught. I'm mentioned by name in the local news article related to one of the the photos, but not mentioned by name at all in the other photos, so it's interesting/weird to see that it finds those pics from my name search.

My name is thankfully not on the net but my email address of 15+ years is all over google, as a teenager I seem to have been VERY silly online.

A few years ago thanks to the voting rolls my name/address/age was in google searches. But I requested it was removed and now does not appear. I only vote via edited register now.

I've checked my dd's online presence. Her twitter feed was very cringe. Nothing racist, homophobic or dodgy - she has liberal political views, but a lot of teenage nonsense and swearing. I've pointed this out to her since in a few years after finishing higher education she will be seeking employment

I share a name with a CEO of a large company. My future employers will be very disappointed with me once they have read about her.

I never use my real name or location online. Don't have fb

As part of my role at school I offer staff the chance for me to do a social media/google
Search of them once a year. We have a funny account set up for that purpose. They can then make amendments accordingly if they wish. It's been useful.

For me: only think that comes up in first few pages of Google, that is actually me, is a Linked In Page. That essentially had only the information about me you'd find on my CV and you can only get that if you've added my location too. There's no image on that. Rest of it are one other person with my name in this city but no other details match, and then an actor who was in soaps, etc. She takes up almost all other listings.

I think it's wrong and invading people's privacy. You cannot judge someone on their Facebook.