MyWebCareer | Your Career Credit Score
The current job market is very poor. Career Coaches and industry experts have been throwing around statistics stating there are anywhere from 5-8 qualified individuals applying for each open position. The last thing a job seeker needs is a social media blunder to ruin his chance of securing employment.
eBranding Me released its Reputation Index as a fun, and social, tool to determine how compelling an individual’s social media presence is. The results of a query returned three results:
- Enrollability: College admissions staff likes to see evidence of initiative, passion, and drive in pursuing your goals. Our algorithm works hard to find initiative and positive thinking in your online presence, since we know how big a difference those make to your college admission chances!
- Hireability: Because employers value initiative, positive thinking, and hard work, that’s exactly what we track. eBranding Me’s algorithm automatically determines positive (and negative) sentiment, popularity, and passion. We try and figure out if a lot of people are impressed (or not!) with what you’ve accomplished online, and weight that by how frequently people talk about you. The more passionate people you have talking about you, the higher your score!
- Dateability: We know the first thing some people do these days is Google (or Facebook) the name of their prospective amour. We have tried to simplify that search into our Dateability score, which tracks whether or not a person has a good reputation and a loyal group of friends. We figure that people who have those attributes will be better to date – so the higher your score, the more attractive your online reputation!
However, the team over at MyWebCareer has built a tool that has practical applications and actually reads your personal Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter profiles to determine Your Career Score! With research showing a staggering 83% of recruiters turning to social media websites and online search engines to research job candidates in 2011, it is more important than ever to control the information published about you online!
“Your Career Score provides insight into how colleagues and employers perceive and evaluate your professional competencies and achievements. It is refreshed each month, and you are notified of any changes and actions you should take to maintain a strong and positive career brand.”
eBranding Me’s Founder/CEO, Keith Petri, was fortunate enough to talk with two of the co-founders of MyWebCareer, Nip Zalavadia and Greg Coyle. During their discussion, Keith mentioned some of the applications the MyWebCareer tool may have for the Generation Y audience hoping to secure gainful employment. Facebook’s over 500 million users means that a reported 55% of recruiters used the social networking website as their primary means to research job candidates (and college applicants).
Unfortunately, a lot of current college students, and some high school students as well, have already damaged their online reputation. When asked what an individual can do to repair a damaged brand online, Nip Zalavadia, Co-Founder and Director of Operations at MyWebCareer, stated, “There is not a way, unless you control those images, to remove them from the Internet permanently. However, you can highlight your positive attributes: maintain a blog, a Twitter account and post about industry trends that you are passionate about. Individuals can even create a LinkedIn profile, even if they are just entering college… It is never too early to start networking. When building a positive professional brand, LinkedIn is always going to be the king.”
In conclusion, Petri inquired about a parent’s role in their child’s upbringing: “Parents are really concerned about their children participating on various social networking websites. What should they be teaching their kids?”
Nip Zalavadia: “Wow that is a loaded question. Just be careful whom you are talking to. If you are in high school or college, be careful who you are befriending on Facebook and connecting with. Do not accept a request from an individual you do not personally know.”
Whether you are aware of it or not, pressing accept is allowing that new Friend or third-party application access to your personal information. As eBranding Me likes to say, Pause Before You Post!
Check out how you score on MyWebCareer.com – link your personal accounts on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter and see your score increase over time! MyWebCareer only has the best intention for helping you manage your online reputation:
Mission: “Our Mission at MyWebCareer is to provide Career Professionals with innovative and effective online tools that enable them to easily monitor, evaluate and manage their Online Career Brand. Almost everyone has an online digital footprint these days. Employers, potential employers and work colleagues are increasingly using ever more sophisticated Internet search engines to your online brand and to gain insight about you. At MyWeCareer, we provide a free online service that enables our users to discover and keep track of their online footprint.”
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