Should I Tell Potential Employers About My Weblog?
June 9th, 2004From Fortune Magazine, the answer to the question, “Should I list my blog on my Resume?”
“You can list the link on your resume, but it’s unlikely that anyone will go and look at it,” says Michael Worthington, a partner in ResumeDoctor.com, an online resume-consulting service. “Recruiters and hiring managers get so many resumes every day, they spend only a brief moment on each one,” he explains. “So your resume should focus on your relevant experience and leave off extraneous details. Never forget that the purpose of a resume is to get you in the door for an interview. At that point, you can certainly bring printed samples of your blog pages if you think they’d be pertinent to the job you’re seeking, in much the same way that programmers these days often bring samples of code.” And if your management theories could be considered controversial, it’s probably wiser not to push them just now.”
I’m going to have to disagree here. If you take the time to keep-up to date with your particular line of work, and you have a blog about it, why wouldn’t you list it on your resume? It shows that you take your profession seriously, which employers like and appreciate. I not only listed mine, but I gave a figure as to how many visitors I have daily. Having a popular professional-looking weblog shows that you are a respected member of your professional community, which can only bring good PR to your place of employment. Companies and organizations love PR. Weblogs have that force. Put your weblog on your resume, but only if you constantly update it, take it seriously, and work hard on it. And, of course, if you try to follow some or all of the points on Michael’s common sense list.