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Campus to Career: Polishing & Protecting Your Public Self
Safeguarding
Your Search | Your Public Self | Still
Searching?
Pre-Employment Testing | Success on the Job
| Business Protocol
Is your public image ready for the professional world? If you are conducting a job or internship search it should be. You may not think that you even have a public image-after all, you are still in school. But you do!
We strongly recommend that you complete the worksheet, "Personal Internet Presence: Job Seeker Self-Audit" (also available in Word) developed by the Purdue University Center for Career Opportunities, to assess your internet presence.
Where is your public image?
- Your email address is a part of your public image. If it is
cute or funny it may not be creating the professional image you want.
Your email address should be simple and professional.: For example,
student@school.com is fine, while heybabe@school.com is not.
- The message on your answering machine is part of your public
image. It should also be simple and professional. Avoid having music
or funny messages on your answering machine.
- Many students have personal websites, videos, blogs and/or are registered on sites such as FaceBook, MySpace or YouTube. Some employers are now doing web searches of job candidates. Posting inappropriate material may influence an employer’s impression of you and harm your chances of receiving a job offer. Likewise, we caution you about putting too much personally identifiable information on the web because it could endanger your safety.
UCS encourages all students to check their public image. If you have questions, a UCS counselor will be happy to help you.
Questions, comments? Email us
at ucs@unc.edu
919-962-6507
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