Sep 05, 2007 10:55 AM
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(Updated Jan 27, 2008 06:12 PM)
The cover article in today’s TOI Accent is about employers reading the blogs of prospective employees to decide if they should hire a particular candidate or not. Reading one’s blog usually gives an insight into individual’s stand on various issues, attitude, writing skills, thinking pattern etc and provides lots of information which may not be noted from a resume or during a conventional interview.
Read article here: https://epaper.timesofindia.com/Daily/skins/TOI/navigator.asp?Daily=TOIH&login=d
efault&AW=1188966923890
Some tips in this regard:
Avoid revealing personal information(You might have happily written somewhere “I hate to get up before 11 in the morning”-any manager who reads this will think “My office starts at 8.30 AM what is the probability that he/she will report to work on time?”
Do not use bad words, slangs and such cheap lingo, which create a very bad image of you. Use decent terms to express your emotion/anger whatever
3.Do not get involved in plagiarism(publishing someone else’s content as your own). It is very easy to detect it and puts a severe dent on your credibility when you don’t acknowledge the source of your content.
4.Search for your full name within “” on Google and see what top 5-10 results are. Analyze what impression these pages may create about you and apply necessary corrective action.
5.If you waste 6 hours a week watching couple of movies no one will ever know. But same time if spent in blogging, it gives a physical evidence that you have spent some time on blogging and few may reach a conclusion that you have no other work…Always ensure that your primary activities/responsibilities are always fulfilled with higher priority than blogging.
6.Ask your close friend or relative to have a fresh look at your blog and ask him/her what image this blog will create about you. Once you get prompt feedback, apply corrective actions as appropriate. 7.Avoid living in dual identity. Some people use blog to explore their fantasies and try to create an image about themselves which they are not, in their real life. If your virtual identity totally contradicts your real personality it may backfire.
Any more tips/opinion? Please share.
Additionals advice for new bloggers:
You will not become popular and rich overnight by blogging. Do not keep any such explectations. You’ll need to write regularly and consistently for months(if not years) before you get a sizable reader base. Do not give up after 2 articles.
Read articles written by like minded bloggers and interact with them by writing comments etc. When you take their writings seriously, they’ll also drop by once a while to check what you have written.
Do not torture your friends, relatives etc to read your blogs. Some of them will not have basic habit of reading and others will not have the time required or a reliable internet connection to blog. If you send mails to all your contacts every week about your latest post it will irritate them and spoil your real life relationship.
On the other hand interacting with other bloggers will bring you luck. Because all writers are readers by default and regular bloggers will usually have a good internet connection and some reserved time for reading and writing. For these reasons, a fellow blogger is more likely to become your regular reader than a close friend who has no interest/time in reading.
Understand Search engine optimization and implement some simple steps to gain higher visibility in search engines.(What is SEO? https://enidhi.net/2007/08/search-engine-optimization-seo.html )
Do not use layouts, colour combinations etc which are harsh on eyes. Use simple templates. For example a pink text on black background etc are painful to read.
Give your readers an option to subscribe to feeds. This sends them new post by email and saves them from the need of visiting your blog every not and then expecting new posts.
Do not put so many restrictions on commenting. Be open for criticisms. You’ll face the problem of spam comments only after you gain some popularity. Till then keep in un moderated.
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