How to check your footprint before an interview

The first step is searching your own full name in quotes, in a private or incognito browser window, on more than one search engine. A signed-in browser personalises results around your history, which hides what a stranger would see. Check the image results too, since a photo often surfaces before a profile link does.

Check every account you use today first, then the ones you stopped using years ago: an old Twitter/X account, a student-era Facebook profile, a forum account tied to a personal email address. Old accounts matter because you stopped watching them. A post from a very different chapter of your life can sit there untouched.

A free Footprint check finds the public accounts likely to be yours and shows what's public on each one today, in one place. It's the same starting point a recruiter's quick search would give, seen from your side first.

A Footprint check can't promise to find every public trace of you. Identity matching runs on confidence: common names collide, and an account you haven't touched in years can be hard to tie back to you. Loomis Intel only shows an account once the match clears a set confidence bar, so the odd near miss happens. A manual search of your own helps too.