Here’s something you may not have considered, though: your Google search results are something of a “second resume.” That is, they offer an amazing additional opportunity to show recruiters what you’re made of! You could leave it all to chance, sure, but why forfeit an edge like that when your dream job is at stake?

2. Keywords in URLs are very important to search engines, which is to say there’s a
fabulous chance http://YourFullName.com will be one of the first results
returned when your name is searched.

3. Whatever your skill is, use it to create something awesome: a short story, opinion
article, infographic, game, plugin, tutorial, or even pull together a photo and
description for something you’ve physically built.

4. Websites like Quora, Stack Overflow, Yahoo! Answers, and even LinkedIn let
users pose burning questions for the internet at large. Chances are, there’s more
than a few that could benefit from your expertise!

5. Leaving insightful comments on industry blogs is a great way to demonstrate
your competence— as well as signal to potential employers that you’re invested
in keeping your skills and knowledge up-to-date.

6. Have you noticed how sometimes there are headshot photos shown next to
websites in search results? Turns out, the smiling faces you see are people who
took advantage of something called Google Authorship, which means they linked
their Google+ page to their website using a line of HTML code.

7. The AMCAT is India’s first employability assessment test that help fresh graduates
to get their first job quickly and efficiently.