Working On Me

Google Alerts is an essential resource for anyone who has to work for a living. Here's why.

These days, a cv or resume is only one information source for potential employers or clients. Most will now Google your name to find out more about you. You ought to be interested in what they will find when they do so, and most people will periodically Google their own names to see what comes up.

I share a name with a Catholic Priest and an American wrestler, and whilst there's not much I can do about that, it is at least fairly obvious to the casual surfer that these people are not me. But new content is added to the web every day, and you can't know when someone is going to be searching on your name. So to stay up-to-date with what the web says about you (and your namesakes!) set up a Google Alert that will email you with new hits on your name in a digest every day.