Did you ever doubt it? What better way to find out some background history on potential hires? Search them! We Google everything else, so why not Google job applicants?

HR and Managers are now, more then ever, especially in the US, using a search engine to find out what employees, especially potentially new ones have been up to. From past experiences, to interests. HR is also using search engines as a supplement to job applications, and resumes.

Resumes might make things appear that the applicant is the perfect fit for the job, but what happens if there is something online that questions this? Maybe false information about a company, and what they did there. Maybe a questionable situation they got themselves into is now online in the spotlight. Search engines are the place to get true dirt on people.

So, just make sure then when you apply for that next position, there are standard ways like searching online, that your potential employer could, quite possibly, find out some interesting information about you.