Comments on: Maximizing Your On-Line Identity http://www.sherylspanier.com/blog/?p=106 Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:04:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Desirae Flechsig http://www.sherylspanier.com/blog/?p=106&cpage=1#comment-42949 Desirae Flechsig Sat, 18 Sep 2010 09:40:27 +0000 http://www.sherylspanier.com/blog/?p=106#comment-42949 Today, executive coaching is widely accepted and used in businesses, there are over 40,000 coaches.

]]> By: Rick Luftglass http://www.sherylspanier.com/blog/?p=106&cpage=1#comment-42892 Rick Luftglass Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:34:28 +0000 http://www.sherylspanier.com/blog/?p=106#comment-42892 This puts these sites and technologies in a very helpful context. One other thing to think about: hiring managers and HR screeners may search a name as a form of due diligence during the interview/hiring process. Don’t put sordid details or controversial opinions on Facebook. They could come back to haunt you. And you may never get that Supreme Court nomination you were hoping for…

Online comments can also affect one’s current job. The most striking example comes from an NY Times article on 7/29 about a Manhattan Borough President staff member who wrote flip comments about race issues in reference to the Henry Louis Gates incident, and she gave Obama a disparaging nickname. It was picked up by the press, and she got fired. One could argue that comments on a personal Facebook site shouldn’t have any bearing on work decisions, but the borough president’s office simply said that “it was totally inappropriate and in direct conflict with the views of the borough president and his office,” and he “accepted her resignation,” so technically she wasn’t “fired.” The article is at: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/nyregion/29fired.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=landor&st=cse

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