American Madness

So many things to write about, where to start? Okay, let’s pick up from my last entry- I am at a conference this week and while typing that last entry from my phone was actually in a meeting about “legal” and “illegal” use of the internet and information found on the internet in admissions and, by extension, the hiring of new employees. Basically this is how it works: If you apply to a school or a job and you think everything is going really well: you passed the initial screening process, aced the interview and are just waiting for that call with the offer, well, keep waiting, cause they are still getting information on you. You can bet that once you walk out of that door from your interview, that interviewer you just met with is going to get back on to their computer, open up Google and type your name into that search box.
And it doesn’t stop there, after they’ve Googled you they’ll probably search for your MySpace page, Friendster Profile, Facebook Page, Personal Blog etc. Now this may be great for the number of hits you get on your pages, but you know that video you pjust posted of yourself on MySpace, you know the one, you drinking an entire bottle of Cuervo in one gulp, punching someone’s grandmother in the face and then throwing up before you black out, well, they just saw that too and all of that “community service” that you have listed under interests on your resume starts to look more like “court-ordered community service.” That comment you wrote on your friends blog about what a great idea it was to play hookie from work the other day cause you hate your boss and much prefer to take hits from a gravity bong then listen to the corporate mumbo-jumbo that spews from his mouth, yeah, they’ll see that too. So, when they call you and tell you they have decided to go in another direction don’t be surprised.
Remember, the internet is all public domain, you are posting for the world to see and now your greatest desire for everyone and their grandmother to read your blog has become your worst nightmare. Oh, and if you thought you could go back and sanitize it all, get rid of the blogs you wrote divulging company secrets, yeah, thanks to Google caching they are all still around, floating in the ether. Now go forth and cleanse your pages, pull the naughty videos from MySpace and the embarrassing pictures from FaceBook, you know the ones I mean, the ones that are going to cause that law firm you just interviewed with to reconsider hiring you, forcing you to look for a job at 1-800-LAWYER instead.
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