It’s almost two years now since you posted this blog post. Anny job offers jet?
Ivan | http://www.JobsBlog.ie

Riding on the tail of your experiment I am trying to use the blog as a means of getting help in finding a job/interview - or at least in touch with interested companies. Apologies for the blatant borrowing of your idea!

I would imagine that using your contacts is a common practice.
When Yahoo! hired Terry Semel as Chairman/CEO I have no doubt that his extensive contacts in the media world were a major draw for Yahoo! as they develop(ed) their digital media creation and distribution strategy. Of course, having never seen Mr.Semel’s resume I am not sure if he mentioned his (extensive) media contacts but I would imagine that they were discussed.
So, advertising your contacts on your resume is only bringing potential employers’ attention to yet another asset that would be of benefit to their organization (in my humble opinion).

Fair dues Tom-best of luck.

Cheers,
Col

Paul - you could take it a bit further and publish your cv in atom (or RSS) and allow people subscribe to it via their RSS reader - they get any updates to your cv automatically!

John - I’m missing something obviously - how do I monetise that?

You may have more offers by now than you know what to do with, but just saw this and thought of you: http://beaguide.about.com/applynow.htm?dir=podcasting. About.com are looking for a guide to write about podcasting on their podcasting guide site.

They’re also looking for someone to write about “Spain for visitors”

thanks for stopping by and commenting.

The site does get quite an amount of traffic but not nearly enough to make me a living from Adsense! I use Adsense by going over my site statistics, seeing which posts are popular at the end of each month, and adding ads to those posts.

In this way, I don’t annoy regular readers with ads while making a bit from people coming in on the long tail - those people are more likely to click on the adsense links in any case.

I must put this up in a separate post!

Toms current skills should be found by a company looking for web aware, new tech evangelising people. If a company that wants his skills then they should be more than aware of blogging, they should be in this community contributing and conversing. If Tom wanted some mediocre job with a tech ignorant company that has just decommissioned carrier pigeons than having a cv and sending it to them is fine but there’s hardly a need to have it on his blog then is there?

James, to an extent you are correct when you say:

CV 2.0 is not here yet, in Ireland

but you are waaaaay wide of the mark when you say:

Tom asks “So what of it - does this blogging for employment thing work?� and the answer for now evidently is that it does not

I can tell you categorically that the response to this post has exceeded my wildest expectations.
Nothing is signed, sealed or delivered yet so I can’t say too much but let me just say that I am not lacking in choice!

None of these companies would have considered approaching me if I hadn’t created my own global microbrand with the blogs and podcasts.

And none of them have seen my cv. In fact, I haven’t updated my cv since I started blogging.

In any case, personally, I don’t want to work for a company which wouldn’t hire me from the blog post!