, 2007-04-20
Back when I lived in the Silicon Valley, there was an ongoing employment scam. Prospective employees would show up with perfect resumes and immediately get hired. It would not take long before it was clear that these people did not have the experience stated on their resumes. Within six months they would be fired. However, now they had six months of legitimate experience with real companies that they could reference. Their next jobs might not be as good or glamorous, but it would be much better than if they started with their real resumes.
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Even if you go over your head to try to find a unique name, other people will do the same.
I choosed "Ichi-nin" after the movie "Go-nin" as an alias. I did some searches to make sure noone used it. A few years later, i found some other person using "Ichinin" on another site which i never used (example: i have never been on lastfm and i am not intrested in anime/manga).
So apparently, trying to be unique is not enough. Best thing to do is to create a webpage somewhere and stick all material to it that *you* say is related to you alias.
I certainly hope that recruiters and potential employers can distinguish real data from the noise.
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