Companies are using the internet to easily do background checks on potential employees.
These are background checks you will never know about, but which focus on what you have posted about yourself.
More than a million new pages of information are added every day to the web. One of the biggest sources are websites like MySpace. They're personal homepages that link with friends and family.
You would be surprised by how much personal information is just a few clicks away. The problem is that all this net knowledge can be a liability.
Companies can now use the net to do detailed background checks.
"Including anything that you've done six months ago, a year ago can still always come back to haunt you," said Dayle Lesperance, a youth employment services counsellor said.
"If they look at your blog and see something you wrote six months ago about your past employer or your work and it's not complimentary, then it will hurt you," she said.
Brigitte Chouinard works at a placement agency that matches companies with potential employees. She says some clients are using different methods to look into employees' backgrounds.
If you think things eventually get erased, time for a rethink. Cyberspace is vast and your past can pop up.
While some may say this is an invasion of privacy, the truth is, nothing's really private on the net anyway.
"Who's to say someone's not going to read it and take it the wrong way and judge whether or not they want to employ you because of what you've done. And although I don't agree with that, it happens," Chouinard said.
