What Color Is Your Parachute 2018 by Richard N. Bolles copy

CHAPTER 2
Google Is Your New Resume
I know what you’re thinking. I’m out of work, I’ve got to go job-huntin’.
So the first thing I have to do is put together my resume.
Yeah, that used to be true.
In “the old days.”
Before the Internet came on the scene.
Back then, the only way an interviewer could learn much about you was
from a piece of paper that you yourself wrote—with maybe a little help
from your friends—called your resume, or C.V. (an academic term
meaning “curriculum vitae”).
On that paper was a summary of where you had been and all you had
done in the past. From that piece of paper, the employer was supposed to
guess what kind of person you are in the present and what kind of
employee you’d be in the future.
The good thing about this—from your point of view—was that you had
absolute control over what went on that piece of paper.
You could omit anything you didn’t want the employer to see, anything
that was embarrassing, or anything from your past that you have long since
regretted.
Short of their hiring a private detective, or talking to your previous
employers, a prospective employer couldn’t find out much else about you.
That was nice. But those days are gone forever.
Since 2008, or even before, there’s a new resume in town, and it’s called
Google.
All any prospective employer has to do now is Google your name—yes,
Google has become both noun and verb—and there’s your new resume,
using the word resume loosely.
If you’ve been anywhere near the Internet—and as of 2016, over 87% of
adults in the U.S. have—and if you’ve posted anything on Facebook,