Description
- Challenge: Overcoming a bar suspension from a decade ago affecting job interviews despite stellar qualifications.
- Solution - Reverse SEO: Implement reverse SEO strategies to push the suspension-related content off the first page of search results.
- Implementation: Create multiple social media profiles, write blogs, and interlink the content to dominate online presence positively.
- Timeliness: Reverse SEO yields results relatively quickly, ensuring a cleaner online image in a short period.
- Real-world Examples: Success stories shared, including individuals overcoming issues like DUIs or controversial articles with reverse SEO.
- Employer's Perspective: Employers face a dilemma when considering candidates with questionable backgrounds, highlighting the importance of addressing the issue proactively.
- Personal Experience: Anecdotes shared about hiring experiences, emphasizing the significance of presenting a clean professional history.
- Advice: Transparency is key; if the issue arises in the interview process, address it honestly, but focus on efforts to rectify and move forward.
- Cautionary Note: Acknowledgment that some employers may still find it challenging to overlook a problematic background despite efforts to improve online presence.
- Example Story: A successful hire with a past bar suspension, highlighting the possibility of redemption and professional growth.
Transcript:
Overcame Bar Suspension: Navigating Job Interviews with a Stellar Legal Background
This person says I was suspended from the state, a bar from the state, for something that happened ten years ago. I have otherwise stellar qualifications. We see other federal clerks from the top 10 firms. When they Google me, the suspension comes up. How should I handle interviews? Let's see, sometimes they Google after the interview, and I get turned down when I expect an offer.
Okay, that's a good question. The first thing you need to do is called reverse SEO. So all that means is that when you have to learn about that, there are companies, there is reputation in those companies that do that. But essentially, all that means is you create many social media profiles.
You have the profiles, you write a blog, and then you have all that information point towards each other, meaning you point blog articles towards your social media profiles, you point your social media profiles towards your blog all these different things and what will happen over time, not much time is that stuff will come up first, and you get it off the first page.
You're going to be okay. So that's how people do it. It would help if you reversed SEO. This is something I know people who have gotten DUIs, and I know people inspired. I know people who have had articles run about them, that they were only fans or whatever it's called. So you just need to make sure that you get that information down.
The only way to do it is reverse SEO. So you can find people that can do this and do this. And so forth, that's it. Once you do that, you should be fine. And you can get this stuff off the first page. Now, I do want to be, and I do want to give you some bad news. I'm trying to be mean here.
And you have to understand this from the employer's point of view. They have two choices. One is to hire. With your background, with your lousy background, with your bad background. And the other is to hire someone else. That's their problem. So that's their issue. That's the problem. What would you do if you were someone and had a bunch of applicants?
I was hiring someone to work for me as an assistant once. And I interviewed five people for the job. It wasn't that many. One person showed up, and she was drunk and was Woody Harrelson's sister at the time or one of his; he had multiple ones. And that did not go well. Another guy showed up, and there was this break in his resume. I kept asking about it, and he told me that he'd stolen from his former employer in prison.
Just so you know, you have, and so obviously, didn't hire those people. I hired someone that needed to have something in their background. You just have to get that stuff off your resume, off Google. If that's not enough, then you have to be very clear about what's wrong with you and the problem.
So I had an exciting thing happen once. And I hired this recruiter. He's no longer alive. So I'm not; I'm happy to break his confidence. He was, his name was Brian Siegel. He worked for me for over 20 years. He recently passed away. But he is a, he wrote Siegel's law outlines and all sorts of things.
And he went to Columbia Law School, which is a great guy. And so I was in the process of hiring him, and he said, thank you. But there's one thing I need to talk to you about before we go through with this. He says I was suspended from the bar. I was about ready to get it; what did you say? It was a call when you're not suspended.
I don't know. I was kicked out of the bar; whatever that is, my license was revoked. What I had done was I had taken the, not the bar, but the signature of the baby bar for one of my students, and because he was teaching how to get past the bar, I was fired, I was caught, and I just said, I love the guy, and it's, that's not a big deal, don't worry about it.
He ended up working with me for over 20 years, but that was decades in his past, and there wasn't something I was concerned about anymore. So what does that mean? That just means that. You need to be very careful; you can ask; if you need to answer this question, you can, and, unfortunately, if it comes up at the beginning of the interview process before you get an offer, it will be tough.
I hope that helps and that it helps you understand everything.
