Comments on: When You Live Online, Your Life Is Your Portfolio… Live Accordingly http://drinkingoatmealstout.com/2008/04/08/when-you-live-online-your-life-is-your-portfolio-live-accordingly/ Grab a beer. Let's chat. Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:35:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Samantha http://drinkingoatmealstout.com/2008/04/08/when-you-live-online-your-life-is-your-portfolio-live-accordingly/#comment-10292 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:51:21 +0000 http://oatmealstout.wordpress.com/?p=396#comment-10292 @Justin- thanks for starting this conversation – I brought it up when I visited the graduating design students at JMU yesterday. It was eye-opening to learn that many of them never even considered this to be a possibility.

@Kelly- I see your point with a common name, but the possibility they will try and search for your name plus a known detail about you is pretty high. “name+ your college” ” name+ something else on your resume”. It only takes a few minutes and a little creativity to find a lot of information about a person these days.

]]> By: Kelly Gifford http://drinkingoatmealstout.com/2008/04/08/when-you-live-online-your-life-is-your-portfolio-live-accordingly/#comment-10281 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:50:57 +0000 http://oatmealstout.wordpress.com/?p=396#comment-10281 This is an issue I’ve been thinking about lately. It is something I struggled with for a long time between allowing my blog, twitter and other feeds to be associated with my name or keeping them hidden behind some online persona. There is fine line for a lot of us between our privacy and online reputation.

My name is not unique and what comes up for me is not a good representation of me. I am not a real estate agent, I am not on a high school swim team, and I am not associated with the hosts of a morning talk show. So, yes if you have a unique name that search results page probably does become a great representation of your resume. For those of us with less unique names, I wonder how our reputation is impacted by that results page.

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