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Career Tips: How a DUI Penalty Can Affect Your Job Hunt

February 7th, 2012

By Emily Turner

In today’s job market, even the slightest blemish in a person’s background can hurt their chances of landing a new position. For a variety of reasons, a charge of driving under the influence can negatively impact someone’s search for a new job.

Effects of a DUI charge

While a DUI is usually a misdemeanor, it is still a criminal charge filed against someone. It can have ramifications beyond even the punishment of the crime, including influencing work schedules, insurance costs and reputation.

  • Type of job – Depending on which career field an applicant is trying to enter, a DUI conviction can prohibit them from being hired. Jobs that involve driving, especially a truck or a cab, are likely not to hire someone with a DUI in their background. School teachers are often fired for having a DUI, so a district will more than » Read more: Career Tips: How a DUI Penalty Can Affect Your Job Hunt

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Personal Branding: Branding Yourself on the Job Hunt

February 6th, 2012

By AJ Wilcox

We’ve all been there. Applying for jobs by dropping your faceless resume into a pile to be compared against every competing applicant, line item, by line item. It’s depressing, plus it’s much less effective than creating a brand around you.

Imagine the opposite scenario – you are sought out by various employers, begging you to come and interview for their position. Your resume is asked for only after your third interview, simply as a formality to put in the employee file.

Do you need to spend thousands of dollars in design and marketing yourself so you can stand out? No, you most certainly do not. Any reputation or notoriety absolutely helps, but there are lots of ways to stand out amongst the other candidates. » Read more: Personal Branding: Branding Yourself on the Job Hunt

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Social Media: Google Kills Your Job Search If It Thinks You’re A Porn Star

September 26th, 2011

By Phil Rosenberg

How could Google think you, a God-fearing, church going woman (or man), are a porn star?

Or an axe-murderer? How about a bank robber, white-collar criminal, or even a sex-offender?

Google could not only be thinking this, but broadcasting it to the world daily … if you let them. This is especially a risk if you have a common name, that could easily be confused with someone else’s.

Google has no way of showing if the Susan Jones returned in a Google search is you, or if a different Susan Jones. If there is someone else who shares your name, but with a very different background – that person could easily show up far ahead of you in a Google search. If that someone else had many stories written about them, made the news or shows up in many places around the web, they probably rank much higher than you in a Google search – you might be buried on page 100, while the other Susan Jones gets page 1. » Read more: Social Media: Google Kills Your Job Search If It Thinks You’re A Porn Star

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