Blogging is spreading in the job market,and this article takes a look at the trend.From the article.”Job seekers use blogs to establish a strong online presence, display their skills and advertise their availability.For many just out of college, the blog is an essential networking tool because it is common for bloggers to link back and forth to others with recent posts.Corporate recruiters, in turn, use blogs to draw in qualified candidates, and they search for potential hires by reading bloggers who write about topics relevant to a particular industry.A driving factor behind job market blogging is the search engine Google, said Elizabeth Lawley, associate professor of information technology at the Rochester Institute of Technology. “If you are thinking of interviewing someone, it’s almost standard now to Google them online and see what you find,” Lawley said.”If that person has a blog, it’s usually the first thing that comes up.”
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