05 Sep
Blogging Skills To Add To Your Resume
Sometimes it’s necessary to dust off your resume and update it. Although many people don’t mention their blogs in their resumes, as long as it’s SFW (Safe For Work) you should include it because you’ve learned a lot of valuable skills while blogging. Yes, really! Print out the list below and put it on your wall next to the Affirmations.
Examples:
- Writing and editing. Yup, you do this. File under ‘Content Management’.
- Time management. Getting into the habit of posting regularly requires being a bit organized and rather dedicated.
- Patience. Building a blog is not an overnight project. Yet here you are, still at it.
- Online advertising. Running affiliate ads on your site? Sponsored posts?
- Analysis. Checking your stats every five minutes to see your traffic and who’s linked to you today?
- Marketing. You promote your site via comments, link trains, directories and more.
- Social networking. You make new contacts and build relationships.
- Coding. You tweak add-ons and colors on your site.
- “Web 2.0″. Whatever that means. Put it on your resume, because if you’re blogging you’re a part of it.
- SEO. You try and make your site search engine friendly by considering keywords and titles.
Truth is, if you’re a blogger you’ve probably picked up a truckload of web skills that you might not even be aware of. They all take initiative and creative thinking. Can you think of any others?
PS. Coincidentally (I swear), Gospel Rhys has written a similar post today called Blogging To Get A Job.
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If you need a resume, doesn’t it kinda imply that your online skills suck?
September 5th, 2007 at 10:27 pmAt the moment I think I’d be more likely to put the seven points in your previous post on my resume! I think you can learn a lot of business skills from running a little web empire though but I’m hoping never to have to write a resume again. Ever. Until the end of time. I hope.
September 6th, 2007 at 12:44 amHa! I like “Web 2.0, whatever that means. Put it on your resume”. I’ve thought the very same thing! Thanks for such a great post to read this morning! I might add publishing to this list.
September 6th, 2007 at 1:23 ami’m hoping that with my blog i’ll eventually not need a resume, but these are definitely some good key points if you’re looking to broaden your workload. and with the coding i would be specific to mention what languages, alot of hiring managers i’ve met don’t know the difference until they can look up a specific keyword.
September 6th, 2007 at 4:33 amGreat bloggers think alike
I think the whole “Blogging’s for teenagers and has little value” has died down now. I only wish I took advantage of a number of things sooner, I’d have been bigger than John Chow :S
September 6th, 2007 at 5:22 amGood point Jon
Some of it does make sense though. In fact, until now, I never even thought about putting anything on my resume that wasn’t real work experience. I think I’ll leave the Web 2.0 off though 
September 6th, 2007 at 8:42 amYou can also put:
I luv to serf the interwebs
September 6th, 2007 at 4:28 pmThe INTERNET? Is that thing still around?
September 7th, 2007 at 12:53 am