While there are some comprehensive guides out there about online reputation management, the numbers bring the necessity into focus. Online reputation affects all of us in many different ways. Whether you’re actively managing it or not, your online reputation is becoming an important part of the hiring process. Seventy percent of employers have rejected candidates based on information they found online, and 85 percent say positive information has influenced them to make a hire. So while the odds that people are searching for you are pretty good, the odds that they’ll find positive results aren’t as great.

Source: Forbes March 12, 2017 22:10 UTC