Social Media Strategy & Engagement Marketing by Karl Long

Sep 11, 2007

Career Blogs - Resume 2.0

Jeremiah Owyang is too smart for his own good sometimes but he hit on and incredibly interesting point on his post “The Difficult Balance in Writing a Career Blog“, where he states “blog you’re reading “Web Strategy by Jeremiah” is a career blog”. For me that is a very useful distinction and a label I think is quite appropriate for ExperienceCurve, which is by all intents and purpose is my career blog. Blogs are in fact better than resumes because they are dynamic (always up to date) and they are connected, connected to people you respect, and hopefully linked to by people you respect as well.

On a side note I wouldn’t be surprised if blogs and social networks end up becoming a replacement or at least and extension of often stagnating intranets and knowledge management systems that many companies have. I just found out recently that there are over 2,100 people in the Facebook Nokia network, I wonder how many will be in there in a years time?

5 Comments, Comment or Ping

Greg Verdino

good pickup from jeremiah and great point. thanks for listing my career blog. in my case, my blog hs quite literally been instrumental in fowarding my career - i met jaffe through blogging, which of course led to the discussions that ended with my joining crayon. before that, when i was interviewing t digitas, my “resume” was my speaking bio and a few press clips. traditional resumes are certainly becoming less relevant, at least for those of us who are engaged in so called thought leadership. g

Sep 11th, 2007
Scott Monty

I see my good colleague beat me to the punch. It was through my blogging that I demonstrated to Jaffe that I knew what the hell I was talking about with respect to social media. My blog has become my calling card - and in fact, just today on the phone I told the caller that for all intents & purposes, my blog is my living, breathing portfolio.

Sep 11th, 2007
Dino

Thanks for the shout Karl!

I sort of think of my career blog as serving a dual purpose: in addition to being a “live” resume (and which certainly help me land my current job), it also helps me to keep my thinking fresh (not sure if it succeeds in that regard though
The discipline of having to continually read, research and update it is a good motivator, and really helps to keep things moving forward.

Sep 12th, 2007
Valeria Maltoni

Karl:

Thank you for the link. My blog definitely propelled learning and career advancement — yes, it can happen in corporate America, too

Sep 12th, 2007
Mack Collier

I’ve only had one request for a paper resume in the last 2 years, and it was from a book publisher. On the flipside, I have lost count on how many times I have been approached by potential clients and for speaking opps, with the person saying they were contacting me after reading my blog.

I would think that ‘How to Manage Your Online Identity’ has replaced ‘How to Write a Good Resume’ for jobseekers. BTW thanks for the link!

Sep 14th, 2007