FastCompany.com just published our latest column: Blogging for a job.
Heather Hamilton, a senior recruiter for marketing talent at Microsoft, recently performed an unusual recruiting experiment. As creator of the Marketing and Finance at Microsoft Blog, Heather asked her readers to link to a post on her blog from their blog resumes, and committed that she would check out her reader’s resumes by reviewing her blog’s referral logs.
The implication of this? For one, if you don’t understand how to do what she’s asking you to do, you’re probably not qualified to work in the marketing department at Microsoft.
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