suppose one of Gretchen’s greatest strengths is her ability to be self-critical in the public eye :) I have an extremely hard time talking about myself this way. You wouldn’t have guessed by the nature of my posts, right?? I mean, I feel like I know what my strengths are and my weaknesses are and I am able to talk about these to my manager. Exposing my inner self to others is a whole other story. At least until I get to know you. Gretchen and I do share a lot of traits including being shy. My shyness just manifests in a whole different way and I figure this is it. result,
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microsoft office Pro Plus 2007 sale, maybe it won’t or maybe I shouldn’t try so hard to change it given Gretchen’s recent post. – I imagine I definitely have a voice of my own and I am going to use it today to cover 1 of the topics I mentioned: The Blog as a Living Resume. couple of people have written to us and asked us how blogs are being perceived amongst the recruiting community. I can only really talk about our experiences at Microsoft and specifically how I view them, but hey others might be feeling the same way. My opinion is short but sweat :-) general feeling is that blogs do not replace but are a good way to augment the old fashioned resume. mentioned in a previous post on how we find you that I often use search engines and key words to come across resumes or information of any kind that would lead me to you as a potential candidate. Blogs fall in this category. I look for people’s resumes on blogs. I look for technical information on blogs. I look for what you write about on your blog and what other places you link to. What I don’t do is rely on your blog as the only calibration point of a candidate. Why? blogs,
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microsoft office Home And Student 2010 sale, so maybe there are one particular or two of you out there that this is true for, but in general blogs are a way for people to talk about themselves, to each other, share information, and in general are informal. Since they exist in a stream of consciousness format it would take me oodles more time to go through your blog and figure out what is going on with you then if I just had a copy of your resume. You can rely on a blog for us to find you, but eventually we still need the resume. of which, remember when we talked about resume formats? A single of the things that you all commented on is that it is difficult to write a resume if you have many years of experience or qualifications/interests that are important but don’t seem to fit on a resume. One particular way to solve this problem is by using your blog to talk about yourself and your technical skills with a side link to your resume. get me wrong here and don’t read too much into this suggestion. If you are already strapped for time or this is simple not your thing then a blog might not be the right answer for you. I don’t want people going out and starting blogs just for the sake of doing it. Ultimately, your resume is still the most valuable piece of information I look to in evaluating your skills against my open positions (well in addition to a phone call if we get that far). end game here is that I consider blogs are great for enhancing someone’s resume. They are like an online portfolio of your work if you chose to use it in that manner. I can send this information off to a hiring manager in addition to the resume and they have added information in order to make decisions. The more information we have, the better calibration we make, the more informed we are in our decision making and on and on and so forth etc. note of caution if you plan on using your blog to boost your resume – be careful what you link to :-). It could be uncomfortable for a recruiter to come to your site only to be bombarded by – um how should I say this – adult information? blog away if that’s your thing - I know I am having a good time doing it!