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Once you are clear about your personal brand, here are three steps to enhance your online reputation: Step 1. Understand your digital brand. You can use tools like Google, Truveo and Addictomatic, and online ID Calculator, to understand how you measure up in the four dimensions of online branding. Step 2. Determine which of the four measures - volume, relevance, diversity or purity - needs the greatest attention (you may have a couple that could use some work). Step 3. Depending on which areas need the most attention, apply the tips below: Volume enhancers: If you need more results that are about you, set up social networking profiles on many sites by editing your current branded bio and establishing accounts at naymz, ziki, ziggs and other sites. Relevance enhancers: To enhance relevance, where possible, remove content that is unflattering or inconsistent with how you want to be known, write an article about your area of expertise and post it to an appropriate online portal. Find blogs related to your area of thought-leadership, subscribe and comment when you have something valuable to contribute. Review books related to your area of expertise at amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com. Publish relevant white papers to SCRIBD.com. To learn how to turn one real-world communications activity into a year's worth of online content. Purity enhancers: Sign up for an account at Vizibility. The service allows you to identify the Google results that are about you and create a "Search Me" button that you can include in your e-mail signature, your LinkedIn profile, on your blog, etc. Diversity enhancers: Sign up for a Flickr account and post relevant images. If you don't already have one, set up your Google profile. Soon, you should be on your way to the volume, relevance, purity and diversity that will improve your ability to get a job.

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With more than 400 million active visitors, Facebook is arguably the most popular social networking site out there. And while the site is known for the casual social aspect, many users also use it as a professional networking tool. With that kind of reach, Facebook can be a valuable tool for connecting to former and current colleagues, clients and potential employers. In fact, surveys suggest that approximately 30% of employers are using Facebook to screen potential employees - even more than those who check LinkedIn, a strictly professional social networking site. Don't make these Facebook faux-pas - they might cost you a great opportunity.

Often, the thing we should do for our career is something we would only do if we were getting a reward. If you tell yourself that your job has to be something you'd do even if you didn't get paid, you'll be looking for a long time. Maybe forever. So why set that standard? The reward for doing a job is contributing to something larger than you are, participating in society, and being valued in the form of money. The pressure we feel to find a perfect career is insane. And, given that people are trying to find it before they are thirty, in order to avoid both a quarter life crisis and a biological-clock crisis, the pressure is enough to push people over the edge. Which is why one of the highest risk times for depression in life is in one's early twenties when people realize how totally impossible it is to simply "do what you love." Here's some practical advice: Do not do what you love; do what you are. It's how I chose my career. I bought the book with that title - maybe my favorite career book of all time - and I took the quickie version of the Myers-Briggs test. The book gave me a list of my strengths, and a list of jobs where I would likely succeed based on those strengths. Relationships make your life great, not jobs.  But a job can ruin your life - make you feel out of control in terms of your time or your ability to accomplish goals -  but no job will make your life complete. It's a myth mostly propagated by people who tell you to do what you love. Doing what you love will make you feel fulfilled. But you don't need to get paid for it. A job can save your life, though. If you are lost, and lonely, and wondering how you'll ever find your way in this world, take a job. Any job. Because structure, and regular contact with regular people, and a method of contributing to a larger group are all things that help us recalibrate ourselves.

Twitter is being used more and more for the dissemination of news and information by businesses, schools and the media. Even Governments and politicians around the world are using Twitter to share information. Job postings on Twitter continue to increase because of Twitter's huge popularity and also because it is free to post jobs via twitter. Here are a few tips to help you get started: 1. Follow key Twitter accounts related to your job search. By following businesses, recruiters, and schools on Twitter, you have the potential to be one of the first to hear about a job opportunity or internship and network instantly with the correct contact, which might just give you the advantage you need. 2. Use Twitter Search You can use Twitter Search to get an aggregated list of the most recent postings and also to see what people are saying about a particular company or topic. For instance, you might want to search twitter using the keywords "best government jobs" and see what other Tweeters have to say. For a more focused list of tweets you might try searching twitter using tags like #governmentjobs, #defensejobs or #internship. 3. Network with the contacts you are following. Once you are following the companies or individuals related to your job search, reach out and connect with them. If they follow you back on Twitter you can send them a brief introduction via direct message or watch their tweets and reply back with either a quick introduction or comment about their tweet. 4. Send out a Tweet about your job search. The Twitter community is filled with awesome people willing to help out whenever they can. If you are looking for an internship you might send out a tweet like this "College sophmore seeking legal internship for summer 09 please RT #internship". Even if you only have one or two people RT (ReTweet) your message, you still increase the chances someone might respond with either a lead or person for you to contact. RT other's messages and often