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VSG Digital Footprint Check

They Google You Before They Ever Call. See What They See — First.

There's no rejection letter that says “we saw your Facebook.” The phone just doesn't ring. The Digital Footprint Check is one complete recruiter-written book, worksheets built in: the searches hiring managers run on you, in the order we run them — how to read what comes up, and how to fix, make private, or outrank every result. Written by a front-line recruiter who runs these searches for a living.

Why This Is Self-Guided

We Won't Run This Check For You. That's The Point.

Other companies will happily charge you to search your own name. Here's what that costs you.

Your Data Never Changes Hands

To run this check for you, you'd have to hand a company your name, your locations, your history — your identity — and trust them to search it, store it, and protect it forever. We sit on the other side of hiring: the safest place for a search about you is in your own hands. When you run it yourself, nothing about you changes hands. Not even with us.

No File Gets Built On You

A done-for-you report means somebody's system now holds everything the internet says about you, in one convenient place. Ours never will. There is nothing to store, nothing to leak, and nothing to come back on you later. Your findings never leave your desk.

You Own The Skill Forever

A report someone hands you goes stale the day it's printed — the internet doesn't sit still. Run the check yourself once and you'll know how to run it before every job search for the rest of your career. A skill you own beats a report you rent.

What's Inside The Guide

Written the way a recruiter would walk a friend through it — plain English, no scare tactics, and always leading with what's working for you. Here's the map:

01
The Search You'll Never See. Why the phone doesn't ring — and why almost everything a search turns up about you can be fixed or set to private.
02
How We Actually Search You. The five-minute routine recruiters and hiring managers run between “this resume looks good” and “let's set up a call” — including what AI tools now say about you.
03
Set Up A Clean Search. Your own computer shows you the friendliest version of you that exists. Two minutes of setup gets you the stranger's version — the one that matters.
04
Run The Check. Nine searches, step by step: your name, your city, your employers, the Images tab, public records, the people-finder sites, your forgotten accounts, and your profiles as a stranger sees them.
05
Read It Like A Recruiter. The flags that cost interviews (they're not what you think) — and the long list of normal life we truly don't care about.
06
The Wrong You. Someone out there shares your name. How to make sure a hiring manager never confuses you with them.
07
The Fix-It Playbook. Four moves — remove, make private, push down, own it. People-finder opt-outs, Google's free removal tools, platform privacy passes, and how to own the first page of results.
08
Keep It Clean. The ten-minutes-a-quarter habit (and the free alert) that means you find out about new results before they do — permanently.

What You Get Back

1  The Complete Book — a recruiter-written ebook (PDF): the why, the how, and every fix, in plain English.

2  The Worksheets, Built In — search log, findings triage, action tracker, and your maintenance plan — printed right in the book, ready to print and fill in. Your findings stay on your desk.

3  Delivered In Minutes — your book arrives by email right after checkout. Check your inbox AND your junk folder.

One-Time Purchase · Instant Email Delivery

The Digital Footprint Check

$7.99
Less than the coffee you'd drink while worrying about it.
  • The complete recruiter-written book (PDF ebook)
  • Every worksheet built in: search log, triage, action tracker, maintenance
  • The nine searches, the red-flag list, and the full fix-it playbook
  • Self-guided on purpose — your data never changes hands
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