Job seeking by blog

Last month I posted about how blogging probably won’t help you find a job.

Alex Tabarrok of Marginal Revolution notes that someone has tried a new blog related approach, trying to find a job by advertising on blogs.

The traditional job seeking advice is that advertising on the part of the job seeker doesn’t work. On the other hand, publicity just might work, and the job seeker in question seems to be getting some attention because he was the first person to think of advertising on blogs.

Comments

[Michael H.]

Hi Half Sigma
This is strange I think. He would have had a slightly better chance of finding a girlfriend by blog-ad than finding a job. In each case, the probability is fairly close to zero.

[chris@organicmatter]

I make a point of not telling my prospective employers that I blog. In my experience employers don't want to know that their employees are skilled at wasting time on computers.