Digital footprint guides
Straight answers about what your digital footprint is, what employers check, and how to look at your own before they do.
- What your digital footprint actually includes
A plain explanation of what counts as your digital footprint: the accounts, posts and mentions search engines can already connect back to you.
- Do South African employers check social media?
What POPIA actually says about a public social media profile, and what the available research on employers researching candidates shows.
- How to check your footprint before an interview
A four-step way to see what a recruiter would find about you online ahead of the interview, including where a free check helps most.
- How to clean up social media before an interview
A practical order of operations for tidying your public social media before a job interview, including what's worth leaving exactly as it is.
- What is social media screening, exactly?
What social media screening means in a hiring process, who typically runs it, and how it differs from a formal, consent-based verification process.