Tom Raftery’s Social Media

I wrote a post yesterday called “‘Gis a job” where I referred to an article in the Boston Globe that claimed that blogging was good for your employment prospects.

I mentioned that in all the time I have been blogging, I haven’t been offered a job. Thinking about this subsequently, I wondered if this was because a) my blog revealed too much about me (I’m not the most diplomatic of people, for example) or is it simply b) because people assume I am not in the market for a job?

If we assume it is b) - then, what if I now say “I am in the market for a job”? Will the offers come rolling in?

What are my skillsets?

• Well, I’m not too bad at blogging and podcasting
• I know shedloads about social software and how to use it to raise the online profile of a company, product or service as well as how it can be used to improve a company’s internal and external communications.
• I know a considerable amount about search engine optimisation (hence the following, for example)
• I have an impressive and growing network of contacts
• I am a very good communicator - well used to speaking in front of large audiences
• I have led teams of coders in the development of large web applications
• I am a very experienced sysadmin - and I know my way around Win2k and Win2003 Server, SQL Server, Exchange Server, and ISA Server

So what of it - does this blogging for employment thing work?

By the way - the “Gis a job” expression is a reference to the very excellent Boys from the Blackstuff drama which was shown on TV here some time in the 80s.