1. Social Networking Sites and
Your Job Search
Oakland University Career Services

2. “Digital Dirt”
• Recruiters read much of what’s posted
about job hunters on the Web
• Monitor your web presence
– Google yourself, find out what’s out there
– Pubsub.com alerts you when your name is
mentioned in newsgroups, blogs…
(Flesher, 2006)

3. Clean Up or Bury Your Digital Dirt
• Clean up your Facebook
– Recruiters have alumni .edu email
addresses, student employees with .edu
email addresses…
• Bury your dirt
– Crowd it out with positive online presence
• Search engines rank results based on the
number of sites that link to those pages
• Consider starting a professional web page or
blog
(Flesher, 2006; ISU, 2006)