could you IMAGINE if jobs asked to see your tumblr ajsjskksksks the url alone is enough to disqualify half of you hoes let alone your blog descriptions
Put your LinkedIn profile AND ONLY YOUR LINKEDIN PROFILE on your resume and if they ask for social media information refer them to your resume. “Oh I’ve listed my relevant social media pages on my resume”
IF they ask for your twitter, facebook, or Instagram specifically tell them you’re not presently active on any of those accounts. “Currently I’m not an active user of those sites”
Make sure you use pseudonyms on twitter and insta, don’t tag co-workers, and keep your facebook private. Ask your friends not to tag you in their pictures either.
Never discuss work on your social media, never refer to your job by name, never tag your location when your going to/from work, and never ever discuss any difficulties with your job online. Doing so will only ensure you get fired.
if you’re working/applying in a field that basically requires a social media presence, create a new one that uses your professional name and your professional name’s email address (do NOT use the same email address with your fannish nick) and get some professional account management software so you can establish an account that’s active like weekly with things like:
cute animal pictures (not the same pics of your own cat that you are also posting to your real account, and possibly not even any pictures of your own pet if your pet is on your real account)
nice latte art (again, not the same pics)
work-safe memes
cool news stories you have found that are relevant to your field (you can have some small amount of overlap here, but stagger it so you’re not posting the same links on the same day, find alternate sources for writeups about current events, and have some things where there is no overlap at all)
observations about the weather, traffic, and maybe current events/sports but this is potentially risky
basically if you could say it in the work break room you could say it on your public account, but not if you’ve already said it on your real account
that stipulation is why it’s “active weekly” and not at a normal use level, because
if someone somehow gets ahold of your real account and wants to find out if it’s you, they could sit down with both accounts and compare the content and see if your accounts
have the same birthday or appear to be the same general age
have ever posted the same image that’s not a meme
have ever posted the same meme, link, or reference in the same time period as each other
have ever posted a meme that reveals birthdays like “pick your wizard name from this list of first initial, last initial, and birth month options”
appear to be in the same location, using things like image backgrounds, traffic problems, weather, sports affiliations
talk about people by name
talk about recognizable people or events (like if your boss is a goth and you call her Night Mistress or whatever, or if you talk about a specific plumbing problem that definitely happened at your workplace)
