Your Blog Is Your Resume

July 9 by | 33 comments | Technology | Tags: ,
Your Blog Is Your Resume

When you meet someone, like a client or peer, do you immediately Google them? I don’t exactly do that, but when I was responding to internet ads for sharehousing I found myself submitting people’s emails into Myspace’s people search.

It’s amazing what you can find out about a person through these things, and you should be weary of that, because employers do the same thing.

Your blog is serious business.
It has the power to completely sway someone’s opinion about you. It fulfills the needs of lurkers everywhere who Google you to see what kind of person you are. Show them your best. (if you’re looking for work this is extremely important)

Are you weary of your online persona?

The Blog is the New Resume - [Bokardo]

  • http://msthenetworker.blogspot.com Mike Scott

    I try to be pretty careful about what I post online, keeping this very thought in mind.

    Of course, my name is so common, that my blog is the 26th result when I search for “Mike Scott”. So I’m hoping that there isn’t some other Mike Scott out there making me look bad. :-)

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  • Joe

    I think you mean “wary”, not “weary”. Weary means tired.

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  • http://www.ocell.net Chris Owens

    I have the same problem… my name is so common that I feel like I don’t have as much control over my online image as I’d like. Thankfully, my websites have slowly been making their way up in Google results.

    It’d be better if the other people with my name didn’t also do many of the things I do, design and photography. I guess when you have a common name, location becomes your other identifier.

  • http://msthenetworker.blogspot.com Mike Scott

    Luckily for me, the other more famous Mike Scotts are mostly outside of IT, they are singers, baseball players, and producers of one of a kind wooden vessels from burrs of Welsh wood (I’m not joking).

    I’m not even going to talk about Michael Scott, since the fictional character on the Office has dwarfed all of the others.

    I guess you could always buy a Google bomb from John Chow.

  • http://fredericdevillamil.com Frédéric de Villamil

    What you say is just true.

    A few weeks ago, I was talking with the CEO of a French company I was about to apply for who’s also one of my readers.

    As I told him I was going to send him my resume, he stopped me with: no need for a resume, your blog is your resume.

  • http://www.onejobtwosalaries.com/ William Profet from OneJobTwoSalaries.com

    I agree. If you have your personal blog, it is your face, your brand your image online.

  • AnitoKid

    I wonder what others would say about me – with their decisions based on my blog….Just a thought.

    Great post! Mabuhay!

    AnitoKid at http://www.anitokid.blogspot.com

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  • http://itsjos.com jos

    very true… some people are so unaware that they can easily be looked up online and their pictures of them doing drugs, hardcore or extreme views or their posts about going for drinks on their lunch hours will effect them… i know a few recruiters and hiring managers, the first thing they do after they browse a resume is google/myspace/facebook applicants, some companies even have a special department just to handle this… i try to be careful just not overly crazed, i feel that i dont do anything so “wrong” that if it was seen it would make someone not want to interview me or give me a chance…

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  • Mike scott

    heh.. better hope they don’t find “deadguy’s dementia” by mike “deadguy” scott.. because then they’ll start googling “deadguy” and get all the band info.

    (It happened to me! lol)

    “death of a co-worker” is one of their song titles.

  • http://port16.com Mike Scott

    Thank Mike, that adds to my worries. Maybe we should include a list of “Persons other than myself with the name Mike Scott” when we give out our resume. :-)

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  • http://www.damnineedajob.com Larry

    Take good care of the image you portray with your blog. How many times have we seen someones MySpace or whatever blasted on the news when they get a few moments of fame. Don’t let become your skeleton in the closet.

    Larry
    DamnIneedAjob.com

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  • http://www.effectiveresume.co.in Resume

    Definitely a blog is a resume but it is a social resume which is not considered by many recruiters. Visit Effective Resume for more details on how to make a resume and what are the factors considered by recruiters. The site has been developed by Nidhi Jain of HR Practice, who has long experience in recruitment Industry.

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  • http://www.engineerresume.net/ Resume Guy

    Yes a blog says a lot about you. Do you think including a video resume can help a candidate?

  • Christine

    Having an online presence is a must in today’s job search. Yes you must be careful what is online which is why you should make sure you do a background check on yourself and make sure everything found is correct. But having a blog, video resume, social website presence. One place that ties all these together in one location is http://www.pzhone.com are there others?

  • http://www.aroj.com Resume Samples

    Yes, I agree blog of any person will be the advertisement or the face for him.

  • http://www.frightstuff.com Mike Scott

    heh.. I’m Mike “Deadguy” Scott, those are my “Deadguy Dementia” articles. Sorry if it screwed-up a job op for you. I dunno’, I used to get a lot of good publicity from those. Including folks asking if I’ve formally published any of my articles so they can reference it in their term papers on similar subjects.

    I hate sharing this name with all the other Mike Scotts.. there’s like 37 in my county alone. Going to blockbuster without my card, or going to Amscot is a real treat.

    I even share the same middle name with an author and two local guys. I keep hoping for bank screw-ups in my favor, but no luck so far. :)

    I usually just write off any of my online stuff as being a different “Mike Scott” if I don’t want the attachment made.

  • http://www.ukjobsguide.co.uk/ Uk Employment Guide

    You covered all the bases well! I was looking for a way to encourage kids, years away from needing a resume, to think in ways that will help them focus on the career they want and to present themselves in a fashion that will allow them to get the jobs they need for that career. Sounds like pretty grown up stuff for 4th grade to 8th graders at a career fair, but in my opinion it’s pretty late to start thinking in these terms as a junior or senior in high school.

  • http://easypreparations.com/ Easy Preparation

    Yup, i agree with you, most of people here with there blogs just for marketing purpose.

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