Shimi Rii, contributor

A young scientist’s web presence can have a tremendous impact on their career. Job searches are widely conducted through professional networking sites such as LinkedIn, and a first impression is now made through the first three search hits on our name. Thus, it’s important to showcase our accolades, publications, and professional associations.

More often than not, we suffer from a lack of web presence. If you do have an online presence,  one questionable hit on a search engine could impact the opinions of people whom we haven’t met, which may influence our future endeavors. Juan Enriquez, one of the world’s leading authorities on the economic and political impacts of life sciences, said in his TED talk titled, Your online life, permanent as a tattoo: “Digital tattoos shout” and “they tell a lot of stories.”

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