Comments on: Twenty reasons why I will put my blogs on my CV (and three reasons why I might not) http://doctorvee.co.uk/2007/09/07/twenty-reasons-why-i-will-put-my-blogs-on-my-cv-and-three-reasons-why-i-might-not/ Not a real vee Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:20:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: doctorvee » Should I put my blogs on my CV? http://doctorvee.co.uk/2007/09/07/twenty-reasons-why-i-will-put-my-blogs-on-my-cv-and-three-reasons-why-i-might-not/#comment-131673 doctorvee » Should I put my blogs on my CV? Sun, 09 Sep 2007 23:30:38 +0000 http://doctorvee.co.uk/2007/09/07/twenty-reasons-why-i-will-put-my-blogs-on-my-cv-and-three-reasons-why-i-might-not/#comment-131673 [...] Update: I have now posted the list here. [...] [...] Update: I have now posted the list here. [...]

]]> By: Nosemonkey http://doctorvee.co.uk/2007/09/07/twenty-reasons-why-i-will-put-my-blogs-on-my-cv-and-three-reasons-why-i-might-not/#comment-130806 Nosemonkey Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:40:13 +0000 http://doctorvee.co.uk/2007/09/07/twenty-reasons-why-i-will-put-my-blogs-on-my-cv-and-three-reasons-why-i-might-not/#comment-130806 I'd say you've forgotten the main consideration - what kind of jobs are you going to be applying for? Some look on blogging far more favourably than others. Going into something where confidentiality is an issue? A blog - even a tendency to blog - may well be considered a liability, no matter what skills it may have given you. (But then again, they'll be Googling you anyway, so there's not much you can do about hiding it...) Whacking on the blog stuff certainly hasn't hurt my CV - and has been a significant factor in picking up a fair amount of work over the last couple of years - but that's because everything I do involves writing and editing, and the blog merely proved that I can handle the online stuff as well as print when I didn't have a huge amount of professional online journalism on there. Others - like Petite Anglaise, for example - haven't been so lucky. Plus, of course, you really shouldn't have just one CV anyway - it should ideally be tailored for each application... I’d say you’ve forgotten the main consideration - what kind of jobs are you going to be applying for? Some look on blogging far more favourably than others. Going into something where confidentiality is an issue? A blog - even a tendency to blog - may well be considered a liability, no matter what skills it may have given you. (But then again, they’ll be Googling you anyway, so there’s not much you can do about hiding it…)

Whacking on the blog stuff certainly hasn’t hurt my CV - and has been a significant factor in picking up a fair amount of work over the last couple of years - but that’s because everything I do involves writing and editing, and the blog merely proved that I can handle the online stuff as well as print when I didn’t have a huge amount of professional online journalism on there. Others - like Petite Anglaise, for example - haven’t been so lucky.

Plus, of course, you really shouldn’t have just one CV anyway - it should ideally be tailored for each application…

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