So I recently joined the professional networking website www.gurunation.com and from there, I found the profile of Ms. Lindsey Pollak. In her profile she listed the book she had written "Getting from College to Career: 90 Things To Do Before You Join the Real World". I was interested in the book, so I ordered it off of Amazon. I started reading it tonight and so far it is really great! It is a very easy read, and everything is broken down into small sections. I think I might carry this book around with me everywhere I go. If I just have a free minute or two I could do a little reading here and there. I also think it is really great that she has all 90 of her tips listed in the Table of Contents, so you can easily go back and find a tip to refer to it.
One of the tips she talked about is figuring out what you look like online, including, but not limited to Facebook. She recommends that you Google yourself and see what comes up. She says "...if you don't exist in Google, you don't exist at all." Well, I just Googled myself, and apparently I have a fairly popular name. I am a lawyer, I play lots of different male college-level sports, and I have various other jobs too (haha). This blog didn't show up until page 5 of the Google results. I feel like that is not very good "Googleability" for me, although, from reading the page titles of the other Jordan Becker's in the world, they might be hard to beat. Pollak suggests getting profiles on several networking websites other than Facebook, so I will work on that. She also suggests writing reviews for books or short papers and submitting them to professional organizations you are involved in, for me, that would be ASID.
I feel like I have a lot of work to do, but atleast this blog is a step in the right direction! I exist on Google, just not until page 5.
