Hiring is a conversation

The everydotconnect blog writes about hiring being a conversation and how your blog is your resume.

I would go further than that: A resume is a very flat depiction of yourself. A blog gives everybody a much broader idea of who you are. But I don't see a blog only as an extension to a resume: It's also a great opportunity for companies to find out who they work with when they hire a new agency. Sure, we already google everyone before we meet them. But, more and more people tend to go to Technoratio to see if anybody is talking about this person and this person is talking in the blogsphere.

There might be a day when blogs replace resumes.

Blogs as a recruiting tool

It was a first for me to interview a possible candidate and to hear that one of the reasons she was interested in my company was my blog.

This alone should be reason enough for corporations to host their own blogs. It's make you more human, transparent and authentic.