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5. Share sensitive company data online with your connections
For most people it is common sense to protect your employers brand, company information, sensitive data from anyone outside of the organisation, but there have been numerous examples of employees losing their jobs because they have posted confidential information on the web. The explosion of social interaction on the web has blurred the lines when it comes to privacy, more often than not though your employer still expects you to keep things private.
To avoid damaging you own reputation and employability it is best to keep sensitive information inside the company and not in the public domain.
Final Words
Think back to when you started using the internet, this is when your digital footprint began. Everything in the public domain is there to be seen forever unless you have actively made attempts to remove it. The fun and frolics, the opinionated rants, the questionable photographs, most of us have old content online somewhere. The problem with this is that someone looking you up online won't know that this was you ‘back then’, and not you ‘today’. Once a potential employer has made a decision about you from what they are presented with it is too late to change their mind and in most cases that perfect interview will be offered to someone who has managed their online reputation more carefully.
To understand your own Online Social Profile report and to view what an employer may receive click here . It is the transparent assessment of your online digital footprint that will help you to understand and improve your online reputation. It will help you understand what is relevant to the employer and what is not, and will provide you a foundation to improve your employability.
Individuals who include their Social People Rating (*SPR*) on their LinkedIN profiles or send their *SPR* with their CV when applying for jobs, have seen an increase in positive responses. Understanding and improving your online reputation directly impacts your employability.
Employers are excited to learn that a person not only meets their requirements in skills, background and experience but that the individual represents no risk to their brand and their culture through online activities. When this is volunteered to organisations it further facilitates their ability to appreciate the value you can add to their business.
If you would like to know more about Online Social Profiling you can contact sarah.poynton@sp-
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