Is Your Online Profile Keeping You Unemployed?

from the too-late-now,-sucker dept

People always talk about ego surfing, and the sites they find. However, how would you feel if your potential employer did an internet search on you? Most companies say they wouldn't do such a thing (and some even think it may be illegal). However, some are - and you might need to be worried about what they find. The problem is that the dirty joke you posted 5 years ago to some mailing list may not reflect too kindly on you. How long until we seen "internet cleaners" who will scrub your dirty history right off the web?

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    Huh?

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    Scrubber, Jan 26th, 2001 @ 2:01pm

    How're you going to scrub all those backup tapes and those CDs that have been cut which just happen to archive some bit of the news directories?

    it's all out there and there's no way you can get rid of it!

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    Re: Huh?

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    Ed, Jan 26th, 2001 @ 6:44pm

    If you can't remove traces of your sordid past from the archives, I guess you'll just have to change your name.

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    Re: Huh?

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    mhh5, Jan 28th, 2001 @ 4:29pm

    OR...

    Put so much Dis-information out there that no one will bother to filter out the fake from the real...

    You can always say, that wasn't me... It was a guy with the same name, and it's a case of mistaken id.... But I guess it depends on how common your name is... :)

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