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Blog talent pool

6 comments on Blog talent pool

Blog talent pool
: Somebody (Technorati/Sifry/Marks?) should create an easy and reliable means of searching for talented bloggers looking for work — or reports of jobs available.

I leave it to better brains than mine to propose the standard for announcing your status (a tag or just a standard set of words in a post linked to your resume) and your talents (see David Galbraith’s one-line bio) and the means of searching for the job seeker or job sought.

But there are lots of — too many — damned smart bloggers looking for work and why shouldn’t this industry, like all others, have a means of finding a new gig?

(Besides, I’d be curious to see how such a distributed architecture would work and Technorati and jobs would make a great laboratory to see whether the meme standard would spread and whether this distributed marketplace would produce results.)

: This is inspired by the news that Steve Hall is the latest talented blogger to be looking for a job. He’s a smart adman, as his blog attests. So hire him already.

6 responses to “Blog talent pool”

  1. Steve Hall Avatar
    Steve Hall

    Jeff,
    Your kind words are greatly appreciated! You are right about the need for this kind of service and my mind went in that direction in the minutes before I made my post about looking for work thinking, “Gee, I hope this post get’s picked up and noticed.” There is a business idea there. Now, if I could just figure ourt how to do it, I’d have myself a job! Thanks again., Jeff.

  2. miguel Avatar
    miguel

    i’m available for freelance work anytime. please.

  3. Heiko Hebig Avatar
    Heiko Hebig

    Related pointers:
    RSSJobs
    and
    Blog-Headhunters

  4. Glenn Avatar
    Glenn

    i always looked at my blog as a new hobby, though i do plan to add the address to my resume. bottom line for me – everyone has opinions, and some of them write well. there will only be a handful of bloggers, though, who will be able to successfully transition to a full-time job. employers are still going to prefer those with a journalism (or similar) degree, i believe (because they have one themselves).

  5. Martin Roell Avatar
    Martin Roell

    Well, let’s do it! I launched the English Version of my “JobBlog”, a Weblog in which I recommend people I know that are looking for jobs, today: martinroell.jobblog.net. (German Version at http://www.roell.net/jobblog/.)
    I could easily set up a blog on jobblog.net which could be trackbacked and aggregate postings about other people and bloggers looking for work. Anyone interested? Then let’s make it happen.

  6. Jackie D Avatar
    Jackie D

    Thanks, Jeff! I am certain that something exciting (and most certainly too sensitive to be bloggable) is on the horizon. Blogging has given me so many good contacts that it’s unbelievable.