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

1. Edit
First of all, think of how you would like to come across, when you are
being considered for a job. Make a list of adjectives you’d like the
employer to think of, when they consider hiring you. For example, how
about: professional? experienced? inventive? hard working? disciplined?
honest? trustworthy? kind? What else? Make a list.
Then Google yourself and read over everything the search engine pulls
up about you. Go over any pages you have put up on social sites like
Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, or YouTube, and
remove anything you posted there, or allowed others to post, that
contradicts the impression you would like to make, anything that might
cause a would-be employer to think, “Uh, let’s not call them in, after all.”
You have the list, above, of what to look for.
If you don’t know how to remove an item from a particular site, type or
speak the following into a search engine like Google: “How to remove an
item from [Facebook]” or whatever.
The site itself may not tell you, but using your favorite search engine,
you should have no trouble finding somebody’s detailed, step-by-step
instructions for scrubbing any site.
I guarantee you’re hardly the first one with this need, so someone clever
has already figured out how to do it, and posted the answer. But you want
current instructions, so look at the date on the list of items the search
engine pops up. Pick the most recent, and do what they say.
If you want to be thorough, you should do this editing on any and all
sites that you find you’re on.
Now to the second of the four things you can do about your new Google
resume (so to speak).