The hallmark of a visible personal brand online is the ability to be found through search engines and social/professional networks. How visible are you?
To answer this, we developed a Hireability Dashboard that breaks down the components of your personal brand online and grades the strength of each. The first section we’ll talk about today is visibility. Can you be found?
The visibility portion of the Hireability Dashboard is broken up into tabs: your Google search results, professional profiles, social networks, directories, web 2.0 services you want to protect your username on, and media related to your name.
The first tab, your Google Search Results, makes it easy to understand what someone else will see when they Google your name up to 65 Google results.
Now instead of having to Google yourself to see what’s changed within the first ten results, you can log into your Dashboard and see what’s changed up to 65 reulsts.
You can also confirm items as about you, moving them into a separate column of confirmed items. This makes it easy to understand which Google results are actually about you. We also display the Google result rank so you know if it shows up as the first, second, fifteenth, or thirtieth result.
The next tab in the Visibility section of the Hireability Dashboard is Professional Profiles. Here, we track the professional profiles you’ve created, and suggest others you should join of to make it easier to find you online.
The next tab in the Visibility section of the Hireability Dashboard is Social Networks. Here, we track the social networking profiles you’ve created, and suggest others you should join of to make it easier to find you online.
The next tab in the Visibility section of the Hireability Dashboard is Directories. Directories are like online Yellow Pages for people. Here, we track the directory profiles you’ve created, and suggest others you should join of to make it easier to find you online.
The next tab in the Visibility section of the Hireability Dashboard is Protect These. Here, we track the web 2.0 services you’re on, and suggest others you should join of to protect your username and prevent cases of mistaken identity.
The Next Step
Now that you’ve gotten a taste of some of our tools, it’s time to discover: How visible is your personal brand online? To find out, create a free Brand-Yourself.com account now and start managing your online reputation with our Hireability Dashboard. See you there! Get started now.
