Resumes are for Dummies
May 21st, 2004A perfect article to add to my collection of “How Blogs Can Help Your Career” files, from Brenda Sandburg:
“Forget want ads and recruiters. Bruce MacEwen has a new approach to job hunting: blogging.”
“My motive is to increase my visibility among people interested in the management of big firms,” said MacEwen, who hopes one day to be an executive director at an AmLaw 100 firm.”
“MacEwen said he also wanted to carve out a niche in the blogosphere and picked a topic he felt wasn’t covered by other bloggers.”
The same thing can be said in the library blogging community, which is just as “tight-knit” as the Blawg world. Blogs can increase your visibility as a library professional, but you have to continuously work at it. A few tips:
1) Be creative. 2) Write everyday. Even if you don’t publish everyday, you can just save it as a draft. 3) Find your niche (as Marylaine has said many times) and work at it. 4) Be kind and courteous to your fellow bloggers. 5) Don’t just link to other posts; discuss them; put in your own two cents. 6) Comment on others weblogs.
(link via Topix)