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Sun, 23 Jan 2005
Blogs and job interviews
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Recently I've been doing a bunch of interviewing at OSAF, and I'm experiencing something new. Of course, we all know that people Google each other before meeting each other, so I sort of expect that people will Google the folks that they are interviewing / interviewing with. Recently, some of the folks I've interviewed have brought up information that they Googled on me (predominantly from my blog) during the interview. This has lead to brief moments during the course of the interview where I really felt like I was being interviewed (which of course is really always true). Just more first-hand experience of the way that blogs and search engines are changing our day to day lives.
I had a very similiar experience - in an interview a week ago, I had the interviewer ask me "What did you contribute to UnitKit?", which came as a complete suprise to me because I don't mention my involvement with the UnitKit project anywhere other than my blog...
Posted by Joe at Mon Jan 24 00:50:16 2005
Posted by Joe at Mon Jan 24 00:50:16 2005
> This has lead to brief moments during the
> course of the interview where I really felt
> like I was being interviewed
Did you mean you felt like you were being INTERROGATED, not just INTERVIEWED? I'm curious if having the blog made the interview more real, because they knew a little something about you, and could therefore ask you better questions. That would be a good thing IMHO.
Posted by Vik at Tue Jan 25 12:35:38 2005
> course of the interview where I really felt
> like I was being interviewed
Did you mean you felt like you were being INTERROGATED, not just INTERVIEWED? I'm curious if having the blog made the interview more real, because they knew a little something about you, and could therefore ask you better questions. That would be a good thing IMHO.
Posted by Vik at Tue Jan 25 12:35:38 2005
Vik,
Just interviewed. Folks have been very polite about it -- it's just a new reality to get adjusted to. I haven't been probed a lot about blog content during the interviews, I think that has more to do with whether the other person is working hard at interviewing me while I am interviewing them.
Posted by Ted Leung at Tue Jan 25 23:02:52 2005
Just interviewed. Folks have been very polite about it -- it's just a new reality to get adjusted to. I haven't been probed a lot about blog content during the interviews, I think that has more to do with whether the other person is working hard at interviewing me while I am interviewing them.
Posted by Ted Leung at Tue Jan 25 23:02:52 2005
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