Take a minute to search your name on the Internet. What comes up? Your MySpace page? An old paper you wrote in college? A court document archiving your arrest from college?
While some of these citations are worse than others, none of them are items you want to showcase – especially to potential employers. And believe me, they’re looking. Thirty-five percent of hiring managers use Google to do online background checks on job candidates, according to a recent survey by Ponemon Institute, an information and privacy think tank. Nearly one-third of those Web searches lead to job rejections.
“If an employer is going to be searching for you online, would you rather them find pictures of you at a party or valuable information about your experience, expertise and career goals?” asks Kelly Driscoll, president and co-founder of Digication, a technology solution firm.
Enter the e-Portfolio, the newest career tool in our tech-savvy era of job hunting. Not only will an e-Portfolio give you a competitive edge in the job market, it also gives you a positive digital identity when companies search for you online, Driscoll says
“E-Portfolios are becoming increasingly important to supplement, support and extend a résumé into a dynamic profile of an individual with not only descriptions of work that was done,” Driscoll says, “but actual examples that give employers the ability to learn much more about an individual before even entering the interview process.”
Want to learn how to hone your digital identity as a competitive advantage in your job search? Read on for a crash course on e-Portfolios.
By Rachel Zupek, CareerBuilder.com writer
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