4. Clean up your online presence or be ready to explain it For many college grads, neatening up their social media profiles will simply mean deleting a couple of questionable photos or asking friends to un-tag them in theirs. Others, however, might have a bigger task on their hands. For example, what do your tweets say about you? Do they paint you as a thoughtful young person, or are they riddled with spelling errors, pointless comments, or worse, pejorative or offensive language? Or what comes up when someone Googles your name? If the first things they see are negative news articles about your failed student body president campaign, you might have some explaining to do. "The reality is you might have to go through and delete any of your tweets, blog posts, etc. that don't portray you in a positive light," says Kuzmeski. "And if you truly have a problem with communicating intelligently via Twitter or your blog, you might want to delete those accounts altogether. If you aren't prepared to clean up your online presence, or, as in the case of the news articles, if there's simply very little you can do about it, be prepared to explain the situation. You don't want to be caught off guard and stumble through an explanation that doesn't make any sense. Own up to mistakes you've made and explain what you learned from those situations."