It is imperative today for individual persons to own their actual full name domain name for personal profile/ branding purposes. There is more. Today more & more companies are searching on line before hiring a likely candidate.
Whether you’re a aspiring executive, manager or politician or a established CEO, your name ‘Mr. John Q. Not So Public’ is very important. Imagine if a person with the same name as you were to commit a felony or some socially unacceptable act that ended up getting indexed on search engines under your name & then a potential client or recruiting firm Google’s you to see that news/ information come up first! It happens.
Many of my clients both small & large will not even hire a management level candidate prior to Googling that person. Depending on what’s found or not found will go along way to their hiring decision.
I was recently amazed at how many fortune 500 CEO’s & executives did not own their domain names or even ascribed much importance to this. Right. Well I can tell you the time of ignorance is coming to a end.
If you’re Googled & you own your domain & actually have something there you’ll always come up first.
Whether you’re an aspiring executive or a CEO on the verge of retirement your on line profile will be there long after you.
For under $10.00 please take the 10 minutes to register ® your name (especially the .com) & any other important names to you.
Here is must read article for all of us - http://www.fastcompany.com/online/10/brandyou.html
Jason Redekopp
Founder & CEO
JasonRedekopp.com
Personal Online Branding Services