An anonymous reader writes: One prevailing problem every modern person on Earth now has in common is a severe loss of privacy and anonymity. There is an astonishing amount of information available to the regular person, but conversely that same regular person is now intimately tied to any organization that seeks information on them. This is a change that has happened so quickly and so profoundly that people from all classes now have to adapt their way of thinking or face the consequences of intimate exposure to unwelcome eyes on social media everywhere. This affects the job market just as powerfully as personal relationships and no one is exempt from being exposed negatively at their own doing.
If you don’t believe it’s already happening, stop reading this and do a search on yourself. How many web services already tell the world all about you? Is it already too late to change your Internet reputation? These are supremely imperative questions, not only for current generations but even more so for the next generation who will either understand this danger or fall victim to it. In simpler terms, whatever trails of pictures, posts, tweets, status updates, or connections you have will say more about who you are than anything else you attempt to portray later. Odds are your next interview will happen before you shake hands with anyone, and you won’t even know it as it’s happening.
Social media sites, surveillance along with an indelible web of background check services can easily specify the type of person you are to anyone who needs to know about your real history. The days of showing up to a job interview and selling a convoluted version of your more hirable self, are over. In fact, more job recruiters today (approximately 94%) than ever before have already mastered the art of using algorithms and Internet screenings that essentially do their hiring for them. Specifically, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn all have much larger impact on a being potentially hired, fired, or even filtered out before an actual conversation takes place. Still, people who want a job must use social media creatively to reverse the risk of losing an opportunity into the possibility of finding one.
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