Employers googling potential employees

[FiFi]

First entry on google for my name is actually from the work website.

Then loads of random articles about people who aren't me but share the same name.

 

[EastEnder]

If I was an employer with an ounce of computer sense, I would do this. Not me personally, cos I'm a nice guy, but many people aren't.

I have a unique name (less than 20 of us in the UK) so I am completely paranoid about letting my real name get onto the internet.

SEYMOUR WIENER

Ha! Now the world knows.

 

[muckypup]

On the the google front its mainly a bunch of political writing Ive done.

 

[Termite Man]

Your search - "******* *******" - did not match any documents.

 

[Pingu]

i am a 1930s US senator who did some wrong stuff and a general involved in the britsh campains in the boer war,

the only mention of "me" is my linkedin entry and some of the animal welfare stuff

 

[The Groke]

The only thing my name turns up is my linked-in profile and a roll-call from the website of now-defunct band, The Cooper Temple Clause.

 

[pinkmonkey]

I want people to find me, well at least find my website. If no one found the website, we'd be fucked, coz its how we get most of our work. My facebook is private though.

 

[Idaho]

I have a unique name (less than 20 of us in the UK) so I am completely paranoid about letting my real name get onto the internet.

Pah! Common as muck. Only two of me in the world as far as I can tell.

 

[spanglechick]

as teachers, we have a far more damning tool to be used against us: ratemyteachers.com - now while the only entries pertaining to me are lovely, it wouldn't take much imagination to see how a teacher could be ripped apart on there.

But equally, if I had to hire a new staff member, I would obviously look.

 

[trashpony]

I am variously:
- a paralymic superstar with 27 gold medals
- a magazine editor
- a cartoonist
- a trademark lawyer
- a celebrated neuroscientist

They sound a bit more exciting than me

 

[EastEnder]

- a cartoonist

Are you Matt Groening?

 

[Idaho]

She's not *the* Matt Groening, she just share's his name.

((((Matt))))

 

[Epico]

I am variously:
- a paralymic superstar with 27 gold medals
- a magazine editor
- a cartoonist
- a trademark lawyer
- a celebrated neuroscientist

They sound a bit more exciting than me

Very good, through that I've worked out what your real name is though.
I'm a very sad bloke.

I'm a complete shit-head of an MP. (that narrows down the field, doesn't it)

 

[EastEnder]

Scott Adams?

 

[johnnymarrsbars]

a google of my name reveals a load of really bad untrue shit people have said about me on various sites

i am the only person (to my knowledge) with my name

im basically fucked....

 

[cybershot]

a google of my name reveals a load of really bad untrue shit people have said about me on various sites

i am the only person (to my knowledge) with my name

im basically fucked....

You can via google, ask them to remove information from their system if it links to slanderous information about you.

Can't be bothered to find the page now, as it is buried deep in their site somewhere.

 

[LilMissHissyFit]

You google my real name you dont generally get me My facebook settings are set to friends only and I decided it might be a good idea not to install the slutometer etc on Facebook anyway