06/02/2012 Inside Out South East

How it what you put on Facebook can seriously affect your career.

you don't want the public to know, don't put it in the public domain.

On the 200 anniversary of his Burke, what did it Kent Main to Charles

Dickens? We had the cathedral, 13 locations that he actually wrote

about and of course the chalet where he wrote his last words.

personal view on life in Afghanistan with the Princess of

Wales Regiment. It is a huge place, around the size of Reading which

gives you the sense of scale. Natalie Graham with untold stories

from all around Kent and Sussex. Tonight we're at Gad's Hill on a

near Rochester. This was Charles Dickens's Home for the last 13

years of his life and where he wrote some of his most famous works

and the place where he died. At the back here later but first, the jobs

market is a very competitive but could you be ruining your chances

of getting a job without even realising it? Emma Thomas has been

finding out how potential employers are digging a bit deeper.

I got really drunk last night, I don't want to be here.

Had just been to Cuba, do you want to see my holiday snaps?

There are lots of things most of us wouldn't dream of saying at work

but it seems many of us are posting things on line that could get us

the sack or stop us from getting a job in the first place. You don't

have to go far to find high-profile examples. MP Diane Abbott coming a

cropper on Twitter, accused of racist remarks. Politicians do

Stuart McLennan having to check his job in recalling constituents

coffin dodgers. When it comes to mere mortals like you and me, it

might come as a surprise our web activity is also under scrutiny.

Bosses are looking into what workers get up to much more closely,

using social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to

vet and monitor employees. It is big business with companies getting

paid to trawl the internet for information about the lives of

would-be employers. -- employees. Mike Richardson is in recruitment

and says some of Britain's biggest brands are paying companies to make

these cheques for them. There are companies dedicated into backing

screening and media screening is another tool in the box of tricks.

Online reputations can be make or break. Neil Edwards runs a

marketing firm in Uckfield and admits to checking the online

profiles of candidates before taking them on. How seriously to

employers take what people are doing on social media sites? Very

seriously. Taking people on is probably the most expensive,

highest risk part of running a business. You want to make sure the

person you are bringing into your business is going to represent the

company well, shares the values that you have a a and all that

information can potentially be available to you by looking at

someone's media profiles. Recruitment experts say many of us

are still falling into the trap of sharing too much. I have found some

things that people have put on their Facebook sides. Someone says,

all I do is read and hole punch. Does it surprise you were people

put on their sides? Nothing, having done this for 25 years. If you

don't want the public to know, don't put it in the public domain.

It is there for people to see and you cannot undo it. The ultimate

risk is it you see someone is using a social media they responsibly,

you be concern that they might end up using it irresponsibly in their

role as an employee of your company so whether that would be saying

something appropriate online about your customers are contacts you

have or the business you have a that it could all end up

embarrassing the business. Kimberly Swann found this out to her dismay.

She was sacked a couple of years ago for remarks she made on this

book about her job. Ago brought into the office and they handed me

the letter and said, I have seen your comments on this book and I

don't want my company to have bad things said about it on public

on line, an overwhelming amount of information is already out there.

Companies don't need to break privacy laws were checking someone

out. Some civil liberties campaigners say it is slipping.

is legal providing employers can show a reasonable case that they

need to do this search. If you are a security job or will have a high

profile job, it is reasonable to take into account what you say on

the internet. Where it would be very dangerous a courtesy point of

view is given employer has conducted a routine searches of the

internet even if it had no relevance to the job. A things

posted in our youth means we could be leaving a trail which could

affect future employment. 42% of people aged 14 to 19 had put

something on line but they regretted or knew someone who had.

But there seems to be a big gap between how employers and internet

users few what's out there. A study by Microsoft found that 41% of

employers have rejected candidates because of information find online.

Fewer than 9% of consumers surveyed believed the information found

online what impact on them getting a job. When it comes to social

media, experts say it is vital we all think more about the impression

we are giving. I thought I would better to get my online presence is

up to scratch. You've got a Facebook profile appear, plenty of

shots here out with friends, just as you would expect to see on

somebody's Facebook profile so first impressions there, nothing

particularly adverse. Of course, repeated images of you out not in

control of the situation isn't going to do you any favours. D'you

think of such people potentially shooting themselves in at the foot

by what they are putting online? Yes, if they are not considered in

what they are doing because I think the watchword is what you put

online does represent you, it is your personal brand so employers

are going to be looking at that and getting an opinion about you.

it comes to social media, a subtle change can make a big difference.

Fraser was a rally driver. After being made redundant, he struggled

to get a job in a different sector and will changing the way he was

presenting himself on line. transpired that maybe people were

looking at me on line to see what information they could get from it

and they were finding a lot more about motorsport and is regarded me

as being a modest or specialist. I immediately took everything

relating to that down and then everything that I was doing on

Facebook and Twitter and anything updated on a regular basis, and

Major and toned down the sports side of it and put more in relating

to my expertise in marketing. not a one-way street and there are

things you can do to up and protect there are mine credentials. Here is

one marketing man's top tips. professional at all times, remove

anything that but P&G in a bad light. Avoid swearing and spelling

and grammar mistakes if you can. Finally, the golden rule - don't

put anything on their that you wouldn't be happy to see on a huge

billboard. It is a tougher jobs market and whether you think

searching for information about someone is snipping it or not, with

so many employers are doing it, it seems wise to make sure you are

working bad weather and not getting caught in it.

If you have concerns about over sharing on social media sides, we

have some expert advice. Coming up: What is life like for a

Kent Regiment in Afghanistan? extreme in temperature is

remarkable. I was lying in bed, shivering, and I thought, just get

up, get a brew and let's try to stop shivering.

Charles Dickens is everywhere at the moment, from newspapers and on

our TV screens but nowhere has the greater claim to England's best

loved opera than Kent where he spent his chanted and which

inspired many of his stories. But what made him return here in later

life? I have endeavoured in this ghostly

little book to raise the ghost of an idea which will not put my

readers about it shimmer with themselves. With each other, with

the season, or with me. Made haunt their houses pleasantly and no one

wished to lay it. Their faithful friend and servant, Charles Dickens.

So began one of the most famous and well-loved stories in the English

Dickens was a journalist, author, showman, actor, businessman able to

command the equivelent of �4 million from a single American tour

doing readings of his works. Within six weeks of the publication of A

Christmas Carol there were 12 plays of it in production. Dickens was

the first of the superstar authors, he was big business - and still is.

Indeed today he is a world-wide industry, involving books, films,

plays, theme parks, festivals - everything from biographies to

bric-a-brac. He more or less created the publishing industry. He

sold more magazines with his stories in and anybody else in the

history of English literature. was born 200 years ago tomorrow.

And although he was born in Portsmouth, his parents moved to

Chatham. Was it a happy childhood? I think it was. His biographer said

it was the place of his happier childhood and the birthplace of his

fancy. He wrote himself, "all my early readings and imaginations

dated from this place". landscape, buildings and people of

Kent he experienced in his youth became the inspiration for many of

his novels in later life. There isn't a novel that does not have

some reference to his childhood in Kent. Particularly in Rochester.

have got the clock that appeared in the uncommercial Traveller and the

The Six Poor Travellers' Hostel. Also we have The Mystery of Edwin

Drood. We have the Cathedral and in the cathedral grounds, they have

the tomb of a lady called family Dorit. And then we have six poor

travellers, Eastgate House. It so quite good father if you want to do

a tour? At saluted, we have 13 locations he wrote about. --

absolutely. And also the chalet where he wrote his last words.

of his best-known works, which he wrote in Rochester is Great

expectations, featuring the terrifying Miss Haversham in her

imposing Gothic house. Restoration House what his inspiration for her

home. You can imagine her in the windows. Within a quarter of an

hour we came to Miss Havisham's house which was dismal and had many

iron bars to it. Some of the windows had been nailed up. We had

to wait, after ringing the bell until someone should come to open

it. It hasn't changed much has it? It's hasn't at all. At the historic

Dockyard, Chatham, it is possible to imagine what life would have

been like in his time. His father worked here as an Admiralty

paymaster and the young Charles would have been a frequent visitor.

Ultimately, the first 11 years of his life, were happy. The bubble

was about to burst. The John Dickens had a problem - he spent

more than he earned. The family had to move downmarket to a shabby part

of town, filled with... You get the drift? Things were about to get

much worse. To escape debt, his father, John, moved his family

hastily to London. Have you seen John Dickens? Have you tried

looking down there? Det caught up with him and his father was made

bankrupt and in prisons. He had this idyllic life we all know about.

The idyllic life, the idyllic childhood but only for a few years.

His father was imprisoned for being in debt. This horrendous state

where he was placed. Facing poverty and starvation, Charles Dickens had

to become the breadwinner. He has to work at the age of 12. Where is

he sent to work? At a boot polish factory. The psychological effect

of VAT on a 12-year-old, sensitive, extraordinarily imaginative young

boy was amazingly profound. Other writers have described it as a scar

on his consciousness. If you look at his fiction you find it is full

of damaged children. What is your game? From now on, poverty and the

lives of the poor would always be at the back of his mind and his

work. He became a journalist, are observing all around him and was

soon to become the most successful novelist of all time. And, one of

the richest men in London. A tremendous showman, Dickens in you

how to play his public. -- knew how to play. But he had a secret lover.

Port of his wife, he met a young actress he was appearing in a play

produced by Dickens. She was 20 years his junior. You have to

admire a man his age to attract a young lady of her age. He must have

had amazing energy! Of course, it was very, very well kept away from

the public. She was another life altogether. Although rumours were

flying about, the literary world about the way he was behaving, it

stayed within the literary world and was not generally known to his

wider public. And so at the height of his fame, Dickens left his wife

and life in London, to move to Rochester with his children,

relatives, hangers-on and a lover. Dickens return to Kent was not just

to avoid scandal, he was in some part trying to recapture the

idyllic times of his early childhood. He tried to use his

money and position to recreate the wonderful feeling he had when he

was in Rochester as a boy. And try and block out all of the horrors of

the London period of his youth, which wasn't very nice. And on his

return to Kent, he moved here two gas Hill. This is his study, the

place where he wrote Great expectations, a tale of two cities,

our mutual friend and his last, unfinished novel, The Mystery of

Edwin Drood. Why this house in Rochester? We know he was taken

there as a little boy by his father. He had always admired it. He said

he thought it was a wonderful mansion, which it is not. We cannot

account for his fascination by it. His father said if he was to work

hard he might Sunday, come to live in it. I think buying this house

was a real two fingers to his father. Yes, I have done it. You

mention it and sold me down the river in as much as you will never

get back house. And I think that drove him to almost prove his

father wrong. In 1865, something happened that would affect the rest

of his life. For Dickens loved trains and he was travelling with

his lover of over the Staplehurst viaduct, when their train was

derailed with many fatalities and injuries. His carriage was the only

one left on the track - he had escaped by the skin of his teeth.

He did climb out of the carriage which was hanging precariously over

the viaduct. Obviously he had his lover and her mother, who were

chaperoning them on the trip to France. He put them back into the

carriage right at the back to collect the manuscript. He

obviously had not copied it to the hard drive of his computer, so it

was the only copy of our mutual friend he had. And that is why he

risked his life to climb back in the carriage to remove it. He would

never be the same again, haunted by images of the train crash. He

started work on his last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. He wrote it

in a Swiss chalet which she had been given as a present. He put it

in a field across the road and had this tunnel built so he could get

to it. This is interesting, it is unfinished, so people are always

speculating about the ending. It is a very thorough and thought through

depiction of Rochester, as this fictionalised town, cathedral town.

It includes many of the buildings you can see in Rochester today. But

the old ascription is overlaid with a very quiet, melancholic

atmosphere and one that is about memory and the past. Charles

Dickens return from his chalet through the tunnel to eat dinner

with his family. And suddenly he felt ill. Today this is a school,

and this is the dining room. And this is the spot where Charles

Dickens died, marked by a baked potato machine. Although he wanted

to be buried in Rochester, he had become the property of the people.

And national treasure in his own lifetime. So, what is his name,

Dodger? Oliver, you say? Although Dickens had wanted to be buried

near to his beloved house, his body was transported by train to be

entombed a amongst other national heroes, kings and queens at

Westminster Abbey. And 200 years after his birth, he is still

acknowledged as one of the greatest Now, Marc Norman returns from his

trip to Afghanistan last week. While he was filing his new reports,

we asked him to record a personal view of life in Helmand with the

Welcome to Camp Bastion, the huge base in Helmand province where is

everyone begins their tour in Afghanistan. It is a huge bass, the

somebody described it as the size of Reading. We are only here for a

few hours because we are off in a helicopter to Lashkar Gah which is

where the main bulk of the story I am going to tell, is based. This is

us getting kitted out to fly to Lashkar Gah. Body armour, side

plates. Helmut, of course. Antique last goggles. And it is not

comfortable. -- Antique blast goggles. One soldier described it

as fast and hard. It was exhilarating. I arrive in the south,

and I spent my first evening with the company, and the day starts

early. Conditions are basic. It is cold at night and the heating in

the tense is turned off at midnight. -- tent. It is about for re M, it

is freezing cold. Trying to find some fuel to put on the stoves. --

4 am. At the moment it is blowing cold air in. I was lying in bed

shivering and I thought, get up, get a cup of tea and tried to stop

shivering. I soon got my cup of tea and a lecture on things aren't as

bad as I thought. If you are a soldier you used to this. Compared

being out in the field it is comfortable. At the moment it is

wet and the tents are leaking. But this is the most established

location we have got. We have a wash facilities and the showers.

And you begin to see how basic it really can be. That is a water pump.

They pump the water up they need in the camp, and these are called

puffing Billy's. And they provide a hot water. We can remind ourselves

this is an army base in a theatre of operations, manned by soldiers

with a job to do. You begin to see a pattern, the first patrol has

gone out, there will be another one this afternoon. There will be road

movements with these vehicles and there has been a visit by local

Afghan police. All monitored by people in the Operations Room,

where I am not allowed to film. Everyone hopes there won't be a

major incident. The obvious risk and the constant patrolling play an

everyday part in life. But they seem to accept the challenge.

hard. Everything is so basic. Lucky we have a couple of men who are

carpenters, so you make your life as easy and as comfortable as you

can. How do you cope with all of the questions? You just try to

answer it as best as you can. I don't think they understand. You

are better off showing pictures and things like that, rather than

trying to describe it to yourself. As I prepare to leave Afghanistan,

another patrol prepares to leave the base. While in a little over

two years, all troops are scheduled to leave the country, leading

security for Afghanistan in the hands of the Afghans. -- leaving

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happening to him and had not done so. How newly-discovered wartime

letter tells the tragic tale of a forgotten hero from SAT -- South

Korea. Not to have known this big events happened and my family were

so involved in it is really strange. We don't think something like that

can issue entirely. And where has the water gone? Is there a drought