Admit it. You’ve probably “googled” your own name at one point or another out of sheer curiosity. If you haven’t, you probably will now. And, like it or not, so will your employers. A survey by the Society for Human Resource Management revealed that, out of over 300 HR professionals, fifty percent said they used a search engine like Google or Yahoo to screen potential employees. Additionally, one out of five survey respondents said they had had disqualified a candidate because of what they had uncovered.
