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I write weekly about the strategies, habits, and tactics around cultivating the connections that matter to you.
There are two types of parents in kindergarten:
Ones that, the moment they get the class list, instantly look up where everyone lives and review public property records for the last purchase price, scan their LinkedIn profile and what they do, to then spend the rest of the evening on Facebook and Instagram to learn their entire life story to inform the next playground meetup - or if blackmail is necessary.
And then there are people who claim not to - aka, liars.
I don’t know how people did it in the paper rolodex days, but the inevitability that the interwebs has something about anyone, one of the default actions when a person of interest appears on your radar is to see what’s available.
Paying attention to what someone can find on you, no matter their sleuthing skills, isn’t just relevant in a job search.
Why wouldn’t a potential business partner, salesperson, or yes, even the anxious parent of little Haley Margaret Joan the Third, want to know a bit about you?
Taking Action
It never hurts to, say, at 10:05 AM on a Tuesday morning, spend a couple minutes searching for your name and seeing what someone can quickly learn about you.
Are you as easily findable as you’d like to be? Admittedly not an issue for unique names like yours truly, but it might cause some concern if an obituary is the first thing people see when they search for your name.
Is there anything you’d want someone to know about you, including what you’re up to now?
Is there anything out of date that you’d want to see about removing? One of my clients many years ago was a lifestyle magazine, and I was shocked how many people reached out to us asking to take down an old picture of them, because, as one told me “I’ve had a lot of work done since then”
Until next week!
-Zvi
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