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Don’t keep your personal address on your resume

You’ll likely be uploading your resume everywhere while job hunting; on social media, job board sites, company websites, your own website, etc. Be sure not to include your full address as you never know who may come across your resume. Simply putting your city or your ZIP code should be enough information for potential employers.

Only sign up on well-known job board sites

When applying for jobs, you’re required to give out a lot of information. Be mindful of the sites you’re entering your information on, and try stick with the more well-known job board sites such as: LinkedIn Monster Indeed Glassdoor CareerBuilder

Use an external webcam

Laptops nowadays come standard with a webcam built in, which is certainly convenient but could pose a security risk since you never know if it’s completely turned off. Consider using an external webcam on your laptop, that way you can unplug it to make sure it’s off. As a bonus, external webcams tend to have […]

When using your personal laptop for work, make sure you’re signed into your work Google account

More people are working from home, meaning they’re getting work done on their personal computers. This means that you could be switching between work and personal accounts several times a day. Make sure you are logged into your work account before uploading sensitive work-related documents to online storage, as they could accidentally be uploaded to […]

Try Paranoid for your smart speakers

If you don’t want your smart speaker hearing your conversations, but you don’t want the hassle of consistently muting and unmuting it or using a voice remote, you can try Paranoid. Paranoid is a device that sits on the mute button of the smart speaker and only turns it off when it hears the wake […]

Disable personal results on your Google Nest device

You might want to limit the amount of personal information readily available in your Google Nest device to protect against hackers or guests in your home whom you don’t know very well yet. If that’s the case, you can disable personal results on your Google Nest device, because it keeps track of private information like […]