Give your career search a boost with blogging
Even if you’re not looknig for a job right now, it might be time to consider starting your own blog.
I’ve been reading Naked Conversations by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel, and it’s got advice that’s helpful not just to businesses, but to professionals as well. Specifically:
- C-level executives
- Senior managers
- Mid-career professionals, and
- Anyone business person with lots of experience to draw from and share with an online audience
If Google is not just a search engine, but a “reputation management system,” as you’ll read, then using a blog is vital to you as an expert and executive in your field. When a headhunter or recruiter gets your resume and Googles you - and more and more of them will - what will they find?
If you’re blogging, they’ll find someone who’s intensely passionate about their industry, their vocation, their business savvy. And wouldn’t that be a great thing to find? Especially in the midst of hundreds of other candidates for a position? Wouldn’t a recruiter be able to do winders for you with that kind of information to share with a target company?
In addition, a blog is a great networking tool, “a way to connect with other like-minded professionals,” as Lani Voivod puts it. It’s just one more way of extending your network, and well beyond the local business groups you may already frequent.
GoDaddy’s CEO Bob Parsons blogs. So does Bill Marriott. And those are just two of the bigwigs bloggers. You could be in there, too.
To learn more about blogging as a business person, an executive or manager, check out Naked Conversations, and also have a look at BlogWriteForCEOs.com, Debbie Weil’s excellent website for corporate blogging resources.