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Take a look at this chart, taken from ‘Recruiters truly care about your internet reputation even if you don’t.’ The top five reasons mentioned here to reject a candidate for recruitment are things that would be similarly indecorous if done in front of that potential employer.

Both these examples would suggest a change in the level of transparency with which we are comfortable. Some will continue to be nervous about this shift, and so for them, it can be a comfort that these services are opt-in : if you don’t desire other users seeing your information, you may either boost your privacy levels or delete your account. But now as everything moves towards the social, it is not even about your info any more, but it is about your info in relation to everyone else’s. So a more correct statement than ‘the publics have gotten more public’, is that the publics are becoming more contextual.

From the point of view of a job-seeker looking to keep certain content hidden from a possible employer or recruiter, this is something to seriously think about. As I scrolled through Google’s Social Circle and looked through the Secondary Connections, I was surprised to see who popped up as connections of my connections. You have heard of the six degrees of separation as a concept but now with tools and visualisations that map our networks it’s become clear. And as the tools get better, it will become simpler for anyone to find out about anything that’s been put online about or by you. By drumming the network, everybody on the planet has got access to you inside just one or two steps.

We’re nodes in a network. We all have strengths and talents, but they go to waste if we do not know the way to connect them with and thru the right folk. There’s a movement taking place that is pushing us towards a model that’s more relational and contextual, or as John Hagel places it the giant move in knowledge stocks to information flows ( break down silos dividing talent and information ), from transactions to relations ( build trust to urge worth exchange ), and from institutions driven by scalable potency to establishments driven by scalable peer learning ( raised competition and business pressures will demand a cooperative work-force for success ).

I think a private liability needs to be taken so as to make this happen. It isn’t going to get managed by someone at the very top, nor should that be the expectancy. If our organisations or social networks function as complex adaptive systems, self-organizing bodies composed of independently functioning agents, then we might imagine this to be a technique that will develop organically. And I believe it’ll we just need a push.

rather than permitting networks to evolve without direction, successful people, groups and setups have discovered that it is advantageous to actively manage your network. Using the newest research we are able to now knit networks to make productive individuals and smart communities.

So that the conclusion here is that our online reputation protection should not be restricted to what we don’t desire folk to see or say about us. Let the understanding that you’re in public guide your judgment about what to post online . Instead, what if we think about our online reputations as the bridges that function to enhance the network itself?

source: Marshall Honor