Chapter 15
Blogging Your Way to a New Job
In This Chapter
◆ What the heck is a blog?
◆ Getting your job search blog up and going
◆ Posting your resume on your blog
◆ Your online video resume
◆ Driving recruiters your way
Would you like to have your own online billboard—a blog that touts your career qualifications for all to see? Imagine the convenience of offering your blog site address to an employer and then letting her browse through it to grasp why you should be hired for that dream job.
 
Creating a blog isn’t all that hard or expensive. In this chapter I’ll discuss how you can put your resume under a website address that bears your name, and gives a recruiter’s search engine lots of keywords to find you.

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