The 10 Worst Web Mistakes to Keep You from Landing a Job
December 6th, 2010With unemployment so high, the job market has reached new heights of competition. Add in that doing a background search on the name at the top of a resume takes an average of 0.15 seconds and can show a potential slew of reasons not to be hired. How hard is it for prospective employers to find information about you? With a few clicks, they can find someone’s sexual preference, religion, and even what you do on weekends. Before your resume is cold on their desk, they can know more about you than a longtime friend.
Sites, searches, pictures, and more have made the web a wonderful place to reconnect with old friends, make new ones, and bring a level of convenience that our parents and grandparents never dreamed. Good news for those hiring. Bad news for anyone who has ever made an impulsive decision. To help, we have gathered the ten worst web mistakes to keep you from landing a job. They include the most common, along with a few you never may have guessed.