People may not think or relate to creating an opportunity through a blog comment. If you are in the New Media sector you know this is part of your arsenal in creating a growing brand. But what does this have to do with your job search and how can it help?
Through Kevin Donlin’s Blog, on his website, The simple job search. I wound up meeting him in Detroit, getting interviewed for a podcast about how I got my New Media internship with LLS and then he referred me to a reporter at the Christian Science Monitor. Though she did not use my interview in her newspaper. It was a chance I would not have had, had I not commented in the first place.
Through his website, he noted another person named A. Harrison Barnes. He is a great writer and has really useful stuff. But his blogs are way too long and if it were up to me, and I had a chance to really talk to him about it, I would really shorten them. They average about 1000 or more words and by the end you probably have to take a break or two. They are just way too long. But I digress. I connected to him on Facebook because I had been the only one commenting.
This led to a possible job opportunity. He liked my blog and things but things just weren’t going to work out between us. As much as I liked the opportunity it just wasn’t a great fit.
The moral of the story is in a down economy there are different ways to find a job. Plus, you need to know your worth, don’t sound desperate and to not take the first opportunity which comes around. You could wind up working in a place which you hate and you could be miserable. When you stick to your passion and you find a way to combine it to make an income. Then you probably won’t ever want to leave work.
It’s amazing how one small connection can lead to many others, and in this day and age a connection is an opportunity.