You may have seen several articles in the past year or so which note that employers check out candidate’s online when they are making hiring decisions. Ethical or not, this is the way it is.

In general, be very careful about what you post online for the entire world to see, because it is a direct reflection of you. Employers, seemingly, will use this against you if you have offensive or questionable material posted in your name. To run a pre-emptive check, search your name using the most popular search engines and if you find something you posted which you wouldn’t want your grandmother to read, remove it.

I’m curious, does anyone have any first hand experience (spy-or or spy-ee)?