In an information rich world where data capture and analysis of everyday people is of paramount importance, recruiting companies are more and more inclined to do as much research on potential candidates as the potential candidate does on them.
With information about people and their habits, their friend circles, their weekend antics, all-visible for potential employers to see, it becomes more and more important to portray a more upstanding demeanor, even on your private profiles. Unfair as it sounds your, Social and digital footprint needs to be relatively clean.
With sites like Linkedin, which are in my opinion, glorified online CV databases, being used to assess your commercial specification, it is also important to make sure that your digital profile, especially within more commercial sites is up to date and comprehensive.
It’s also important what others say about you, and that it is aligned with what you’re saying about yourself too. The sad truth is everything you do can be monitored, and count for or against you when it comes to a potential job.
Your best bet, keep it clean, tidy and up to date, because that job you really want, well they’re looking at you.