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Google-Stalk Your Way to a New Teaching Job
Stalk like a career professional
Tania Khadder | Monster
The internet has made stalkers out of all of us. You know exactly what I’m talking about.
But instead of stalking your ex-boyfriend’s new girlfriend, consider using your newfound detective skills for more productive (i.e. less emotionally jarring) purposes, like snagging the job of your dreams.
Interested in a company and need to find a person to contact? Google away. Trying to suss out the guy who’s interviewing you next week? Facebook him!
Within minutes, you can find out where he’s from, how to reach him, where he’s worked in the past, and – perhaps most importantly – what his favorite movie is. The more you know about him, the better your ability to sell yourself.
We’re not suggesting you cultivate an entirely false personality to match your interviewer — that would be disingenuous and would surely come back to bite you.
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But knowing a bit more about someone can help you find points of commonality you might otherwise have missed. If you find out they went to your alma mater, you can ever-so-subtly work that into the conversation in an interview. Or maybe you share the same taste in music? Find an appropriate way to bring it up. We all know that getting hired has a lot to do with likeability. And fair or not, people generally like other people who are similar to them. Why miss out on an opportunity to highlight these similarities?
Are you ready to do some in-depth detective work? Luckily, you’ve got an extremely powerful investigative tool right at your fingertips. Abuse it wisely!
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*Disclaimer: These tips were designed to help you stalk in the most legal, non-creepy way. We do not encourage or condone harassment, obsessive behavior or any kind of physical stalking.
broadwaylady1
28 days ago
72 comments
I started looking for my maybe future employer-I found her twitter account. It was locked. But i could see who she twitters with so I clicked on a few. I read one entry that she twittered and then felt completely icky-literally like a stalker would not feel because of their lack of morals and ethics...I immediately logged off and am not going to google like that again. I don't care how anyone tries to rationalize this(and I really need a full-time job). I felt like I was completely invading her privacy and that someone could just as easily do that with my information if I put it out there. To me, this goes too far.
kimtaylor
29 days ago
258 comments
Very interesting post. There are some of us old timers who are working hard to be more social media aware and this post provides a number of salient points. One that I particularly like is sending and using e-cards. I can see a whole lot of utility in that.
grossesse