PolicyGuy

Tuesday, April 10, 2007


Blog Your Way to a New Job.
Blogging can get you fired if you expose company secrets or goof off during office hours. But can it get you hired as well?

Absolutely, says the Wall Street Journal:

Corporate recruiters have long surfed the Web to vet potential hires, but now they are also surfing blogs to unearth job candidates, expanding their talent pool and gaining insights they say they can't get from résumés and interviews.

[snip]
In addition to blogs that focus on their industry or field of interest, recruiters say they check candidates' blogs about noncareer-related topics for evidence of writing skills and clues to how well rounded they are.


But beware: what you say can come back to haunt you, as well. Said one recruiter:

"Whether you're writing about people you interviewed with or you're making a public statement that can be construed as immoral, these are the types of things an employer is going to look at and consider in their assessment of you as a candidate."


There's nothing remarkable about the cautions in the article. On the other hand, I was for some reason susprised at the suggestion that recruiters actively use blogs not to screen out people (though that happens), but to actively seek candidates.

"Justice Louis D. Brandeis'?s metaphor of the states as "laboratories" for policy experiments ... had almost nothing to do with federalism and everything to do with his commitment to scientific socialism. .... To this day, it continues to inhibit a truly experimental, federalist politics." -- Michael S. Greve

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