Reputation Managment Career Center

One of the worst things you can do in today’s job market is having a terrible online reputation. The news keeps telling you the job market is brutal and it keeps getting harder and harder for college graduates to find gainful employment.

Online Rep Management is here to provide easy ways to clean up your online reputation and control the Search Engine results for all things involving your name. By controlling the SERPs you won’t be turned away from a job interview because of what you wrote online years ago or those embarrassing pictures of you online.

Google Alerts and Me on the Web

Cleaning up your online reputation can take a while but finding out what is being said or published about you can take mere minutes.
Google’s Me on the Web is easy to set up and you can start receiving alerts right away. You simply set up what “keywords” you want to track such as your name or some combination of your name that might be searched.

If you happen to discover some very personal information such as your social security number, from the dashboard you can send in a request to have that information removed or expunged from the search engine.

Google’s Me on the Web is a free service and should be utilized by anyone who is serious about protecting their online reputation.

Owning YourName.com

When it comes to search engine optimization, very little carries more weight than an exact match domain for any given search. In this case we are talking about a search involving your name and thus a domain for yourname.com is essential in the fight for your online reputation.

You can buy domains for as little as $7.49 a year at GoDaddy and hosting for cheap as well. We encourage anyone serious about their online reputation to buy their domain name immediately. This online reputation management strategy isn’t free like Me on the Web but is an invaluable tool for your online presence in general.

Don’t know how to program, no problem, simply install a wordpress blog and install a free wordpress theme and create a simple resume site to take up important SERP real estate for your searches.

Social Media Filtering

With the ever changing Facebook privacy policies you must be sure you have your settings correct. Letting out too much information and not having a proper filter for yourself can come back to haunt you down the road.

According to a survey conducted at Jobvite in July 2011, 90 percent of employers are using social networks such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter to recruit new hires. Making sure your social media profiles are censored and protected can be a major key to selling yourself to your new employer.

You can also use free social media monitoring tools to monitor what is being said about you on these social networks as well. These services will tell you when you are mentioned in a tweet or Facebook posting so you can react immediately.

Protecting your online reputation doesn’t have to be expensive and you can have a high return for your efforts. A few of these reputation management techniques can actually be fun as well.

Don’t let the thought of a down economy and unemployment damper your spirits. Being proactive in your reputation efforts may also land you an interview or job in a field you would have never thought simply because you could be found easier.