{"id":445,"date":"2006-11-16T10:26:48","date_gmt":"2006-11-16T16:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=445"},"modified":"2006-11-16T10:28:01","modified_gmt":"2006-11-16T16:28:01","slug":"candidate-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/11\/candidate-blogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Candidates With Blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All right, we posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=441\" target=\"_blank\">Candidates with Personal Websites<\/a> yesterday and now today we come across this Selling Power article &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sellingpower.com\/html_newsletter\/article.asp?NLid=10&#038;Layout_ID=587&#038;ARTid=2686&#038;nDate=November+15%2C+2006\" target=\"_blank\">Blogs: Are You There Yet?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This phenomenon is more than a fad, it appears to be a growing trend:<br \/>\n&#8220;Blogs are, generally speaking, genuine,&#8221; says Krane. &#8220;A blog is one person&#8217;s voice. How someone blogs is probably an indication of how that person speaks and conducts him or herself in general.&#8221;Many prospective employees also keep blogs as a portfolio &#8211; especially in this town [San Francisco],&#8221; says Krane. &#8220;Having a blog shows that you are on the cutting edge of Web 2.0. It&#8217;s commonplace for a job candidate to refer a prospective employer to his or her blog.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Common in San Francisco. Not so common in the Twin Cities&#8230;yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All right, we posted on Candidates with Personal Websites yesterday and now today we come across this Selling Power article &#8211; Blogs: Are You There Yet? This phenomenon is more than a fad, it appears to be a growing trend: &#8220;Blogs are, generally speaking, genuine,&#8221; says Krane. &#8220;A blog is one person&#8217;s voice. How someone blogs is probably an indication of how that person speaks and conducts him or herself in general.&#8221;Many prospective employees also keep blogs as a portfolio &#8211; especially in this town [San Francisco],&#8221; says Krane. &#8220;Having a blog shows that you are on the cutting edge of Web 2.0. It&#8217;s commonplace for a job candidate to&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/11\/candidate-blogs\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3,15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hiring","category-sales","category-sourcing","category-trends"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-7b","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":814,"url":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/04\/email-names-to-avoid\/","url_meta":{"origin":445,"position":0},"title":"Email Names To Avoid","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"April 10, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"20 years ago we would not have been discussing this topic, but Foxnews.com posts this article:\u00a0 Quirky E-Mail Addresses Won't Help in the Hunt for Jobs. \u00a0I believe it was Mark Twain who said that common sense ain't so common.\u00a0 You would think job candidates would be wary of using\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2486,"url":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2011\/05\/candidates-are-negotiating-pay\/","url_meta":{"origin":445,"position":1},"title":"Candidates Are Negotiating Pay","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"May 26, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I can attest to the findings referenced in this Manpower survey: Just last week, ManpowerGroup released the results of its sixth-annual Talent Shortage Survey. 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