Week 4: What Color is Your Parachute? Ch 2 review

Last night I finished reading chapter 2 of What Color is Your Parachute?. I really enjoyed chapter 2. It was very informative. This chapter was titled, "Google Is Your New Resume". What that means is during this day and age companies are using Google more than an actual resume. It is becoming more and more popular for a company to search your name before they select you for an interview. With that being said, the chapter gives us 4 ways to improve your Google resume. Those 4 ways are; edit, fill in, expand, and add. Each of those 4 ways will make your google resume look a lot better. For example, when editing you want to make sure you delete anything you've posted that seems unprofessional. I think that editing is one of the most important things when fixing up your Google resume because if a company is looking at you and sees that you post things about getting drunk, racist comments and etc, you have less of a chance of getting hired.

Since this chapter talks about Google so much I decided to Google myself to see what would come up.

 

When I search my name nothing bad comes up. All the links to all forms of my social media show up, which I don't think is a bad thing. If a company decides to look at my social media I honestly would not care. My Instagram is open to the public because I do not post things I shouldn't. Same goes for my Twitter. The only issue I stumbled upon was when I image searched my name. Things my friends tagged me in came up. They are not bad pictures or anything, but their captions for things is what makes it iffy. Because of that I will be un-tagging myself from those pictures. 

I cannot wait to continue making posts about this book. So far it's been a blast.