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Career Advice Blogs
Can Help YOU in Your Job Search!
 By: Roger Lear


The blogging community can provide you with fantastic career information that can help in many ways. Career blogs are becoming a very good source for questions you may have about your job search. For example, there are blogs dedicated to how to ask for a promotion; searching for jobs; networking; background checks; video resumes; personality profile testing; and virtually any career question you may have.

Today, I would like to provide you with a list of some of the best career blogs on the internet. You must first understand that blogs come in all shapes and sizes. Depending on the type of information you seek, pay attention to who the author of the blog is to make sure they are qualified to give you solid career advice.

Career Blogs can be broken up into these categories:

Company Blogs: Official career blogs of the company you are considering working for. These are very informative and include things like the day in the life of an employee, company announcements, podcasts and videos about company jobs and corporate culture.

Career Website Blogs: Sites like www.OrlandoJobs.com have blogs that speak directly to a niche community.

Professional Career Bloggers: Professionals in the career field write blogs about almost anything. Go to sites like www.careerxroads.com and www.careerjournal.com to find some excellent information.

Executive Search Firms: A lot of search firms have blogs that give great career advice from interview tips to resume writing. Go and visit sites like A.E. Feldman http://blog.aefeldman.com. They have an excellent blog for financial, accounting and legal trends.

Social Network Sites: Sites like LinkedIn and Facebook both have very good career blogs.

Personal Blogs: There are some great people writing blogs that can provide you a wealth of information. Alexandra Levit is a great example www.alexandralevit.typepad.com/wcw.

Here are some blogs to check out. You can always search for career blogs at Google or Typepad. Also, most of the Fortune 500 companies have a career blog.

  2. CareerAdviceBlogs.com (grabs blog postings from all over the internet)

Once at a career blog, check their blog roll and it will lead you to 1,000s of other blogs. Just make sure to have plenty of time set aside!
Question & Answer
Q: How do I blog safely?

A: Check out About.com's How Blogging and Social Networking Can Impact Your Job Search

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has information on how to blog safely and how to blog without getting fired. These suggestions include blogging anonymously, making your blog not searchable, limiting who can read your blog, and, when employed, focusing your blog on protected topics that you can't be fired for writing about.

Blogger.com also gives advice on how not to get fired because of your blog. The blog post notes that "...blogs are available to a public audience like television, newspapers, and radio. When you publish a blog entry, you are broadcasting this information to a potential audience of millions." There are several suggestions for safely blogging at work.

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