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Upon reading What Color is Your Parachute? 2016: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers,  I came across a chapter that says Google is Your New Resume. Right at this moment it really hit me. A few ideas came to mind ever before reading the chapter. I began to think about my social medias: LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, etc. These social media have much of my person information on them. When I think in regards of jobs, some of these things can really be used to my advantage. However, some things can really be not so good for jobs and for everyone to see. For example, Twitter has lots of funny yet inappropriate videos, hence why I deleted my twitter. I would not like for my job opportunity to be diminished by an inappropriate Twitter post. So instead of making a new Twitter, I created a LinkedIn account. I replace a bad habit with something good. It allows for me to share my business achievements, stay connected with people at a professional level, helps me in job market potentially.

In book mentioned above, the author begins the chapter by giving advice to Google yourself. Basically, see how yourself checks out. If you have inappropriate content edit it out. Make sure everything looks nice. Keep in mind that your future employer could be look at anything that pops up when they google your name. Also, recommended to fill in all the blanks and make everything presentable. Give your information to the site, don't be too personal. For example, make sure you have pictures on LinkedIn, share your jobs and whatever blanks. I would just say be careful because some people will chose to use your information in a way you would not like.
In the chapter Google is Your New Resume, it gives many recommendations to improve your resume and to help you become very valuable in the work force.Use these tools as an advantage.

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