[PROF] Google your own name before job searches

This is something that your professional contacts will always tell you to do. However, I feel it's still overlooked considering how often people get fired or disciplined for having questionable content on the internet with their name attached to it.

In Google, just search for your full name with double quotes around it. The double quotes force the search to only include content that has both words together, which is helpful if you have two common names (for example, a search for a name like Bob Smith would return all pages that have Bob or Smith in them).

You should look at the search results and decide whether you want to take anything down, or try to at least.

As an example, here's a search for myself. I used to have only about 20 results total, but now I have over 350. There's also another "me" out there apparently. He's a youth soccer goalie in San Diego.