Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Where Is The Divide For Your Personal Life Versus Your Professional Life on The Internet?

I recently read a blog called “You are What You Write”. It is about how what you write on MySpace or Facebook can affect your chances on getting a job. As a part of a company that provides online career portfolios I am here to tell you that it is extremely important. It is a form of branding that you can use to truly promote yourself or destroy yourself. What you post on Myspace, Facebook or even my site Protuo.com or any of the others with any form of inappropriate behavior can now determine whether you get a job. In a lot of ways this is unfortunate, because there is no way a person independently has control over what is posted about them on the Internet. I believe that the Internet should be used as a tool to help promote, but not as a way to eliminate a person from the proverbial running. The question that begs the most attention is where is the divide between a jobseekers personal life and professional life on the Internet?

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