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Very bad online reputation is destroying my chances of getting a job
- mhtwigg 9y agoEasy...legally change the spelling of your name...build a new online profile. And move on...old guy is dead...start a new one...
- mythrwy 9y agoHe addresses that possibility in the article. According to him Canada publishes name changes online.
- justboxing 9y agoSo what if Canada publishes name change online? What are the odds of the name change article coming up in search results alongside the news articles? Very slim. Unless a potential employer or interviewers goes all in 'detective mode' and researches the name change sites also. But that would likely be 1 in 50 or 100 me thinks.
- rrauenza 9y agoThere was also the suggestion to pick a fairly common name... how can they determine that you're the John Smith that changed his name from "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt"? But the whole thing does make me more sympathetic to the "Right to be forgotten."
- jumpmanjr 9y agoPossibly make up another “you”, with the same name, but a different age. When I google myself, I get a criminal who’s 10 years younger than I am, and incarcerated... for about 3 pages of search terms. Gave up before I found anything on myself.