Maintaining an Online Profile -- and your Professionalism.

By Mary Ellen Slayter.

The Washington Post - Washington, D.C.
Sunday, February 12, 2006; Page K01.

Online profiles might help you get dates, but could they keep you from getting a job?

Tim DeMello, chief executive of Ziggs, a Boston company that manages online profiles for professionals, thinks so.

"Most employers these days do some level of due diligence" about the people they hire, DeMello said. At the very least, they drop prospective employees' names into search engines such as Google and Yahoo. Many take things a step further and search for profiles in sites such as Friendster, MySpace, LiveJournal and Facebook.

(And please, save the arguments about employers "violating your privacy" by looking at these sites. It's on the Internet, for goodness' sake.)

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