GETTING AN I.T. JOB THROUGH A BLOG
Tech Republic says:
“Here are some tips from the article for making your blog “recruiter-friendly”:
- Clearly identify your specialty.
- Show you’re current on hot topics.
- Provide more information. (Include a resume or a link to a social networking site you use.)
- Exercise common sense–Don’t write anything negative about former employers. (Now I’m really starting to get paranoid.)
- Omit personal information.
- Keep it polished and current
- Contribute to other blogs. (This draws more traffic and boosts its search-engine rankings.)”
I think this is useful, but that means not really being oneself while blogging. Sure, if you’re between the ages of 18 and 95 it’s probably NOT a good idea to admit on your BLOG that you enjoy wearing diapers, yelling “ga ga, boo boo”, and running around with a giant bottle of milk in the privacy of your own home… I think we can all agree we identify with doing that. But squelching opinions on things that are important to us (such as ranking former employers) is omitting the best part of what the internet is really good for.
What the Tech Republic article says to me at first glance is that if you have an I.T. related BLOG you can’t also have a personal BLOG, because, as we all know, if you do, they will find it. When they find it, no matter how good your “professional” blog is, no matter how current, no matter how up to date, no matter how polished etc… if (and when) they find your personal blog you could be up Shit Creek. Of course, corporations, like Governments and Churches aren’t really the ones responsible for he grief they give people - it’s the people managing the corporations, governments and churches that are responsible. One example of each would be a U.S. multinational manufacturing plant making batteries causing the deaths of thousands in Bopal India, the U.S. Policy to wipe out Native Americans and push them off the land, and the early Catholic Church that terrorized the world and forced the destruction of thousands of indiginous cultures and millions of people to convert or die. In all of those cases the obvious management idea could only have been that the ends justified the means.
