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Online Nicknames Google better than Real?
An anonymous reader writes "I was recently laid off, and during several of the interviews looking for a new job as a mid level IT manager, I was asked "So, I can just Google your name and find some of your work?" The answer is "yes", but searching for my name doesn't really bring up many results compared to searching for my online nickname which I have been using for about a decade. I am very tempted just to put that nickname on my resume. Is the professional, albeit technical, world ready for this step? Where should I put it? At the top or somewhere in the body?" And the other problem- how hard will it be to get a job when your nickname is something ridiculous. Boy I wish I would have thought of that in 95 ;)
A better thing is to get friends to create a wikipedia entry for your business persona. have them enter in your achievements. There is a group of about 20 of us that do this, we email one of the members about an update and they put it on the wikipedia entry. Works great and when an employer sees yo have a wikipedia entry they think you are far more important than you really are.
works awesome!
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
That will probably get me modded up, thank you.
My first Journal Entry ever, in 8 years! http://slashdot.org/journal/365947/aphelion-scifi-fantasy-horror-poetry-webzine
Celardore -- what a dumb nickname. Sounds like something a 12-year-old girl would come up with.