No. I'm the type of person who believes people should go home and do whatever they want. They should also feel free to post whatever they want to there blog or whatever. Just be aware that a potential employer may look at it. That's all.
Coincidently I've been hiring for a software developer position and have had to deal with a similar situation. We had one promising canidate who had a very impressive resume and included a url for his online portfolio in his resume. We checked it out, it had great code samples and executables. On the sidebar menu he also had a link for his development blog, which of course we looked at. His blog included a handful of entries of his brief and apparently temultuous stint at his prior employer. It was apparently so bad that he didn't include the job on his resume. It was a huge red flag but we still brought him in for an interview. When we asked him about the job he seemed surprised and defensive that we had looked at his blog even though he sent us his portfolio URL. Not surprisingly he didn't make our final list of canidates.
I've also run into the seemingly innocuos practice of being sent a resume using an email address that contains a personal domain (joe@joeschmo.com). If the domain name is the canidates name of course I'm going to check that out too. In a couple instances people have included blogs with way too much personal information. It was nothing sinister enough to rule someone out as a canidate. But enough to leave me scratching my head as to how someone would be so unaware or indifferent to having such personal information available to a potential employer.
I think personal website or blog, can be a very powerful tool for job-seekers. It's any easy way to demonstrate your talents and knowledge. All of the best canidates we've looked have had something available on the web. But you need to be very conscietious of what you put on your site or blog. Too much personal information can be a turn-off to the person doing the hiring.
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No. I'm the type of person who believes people should go home and do whatever they want. They should also feel free to post whatever they want to there blog or whatever. Just be aware that a potential employer may look at it. That's all.
I've also run into the seemingly innocuos practice of being sent a resume using an email address that contains a personal domain (joe@joeschmo.com). If the domain name is the canidates name of course I'm going to check that out too. In a couple instances people have included blogs with way too much personal information. It was nothing sinister enough to rule someone out as a canidate. But enough to leave me scratching my head as to how someone would be so unaware or indifferent to having such personal information available to a potential employer.
I think personal website or blog, can be a very powerful tool for job-seekers. It's any easy way to demonstrate your talents and knowledge. All of the best canidates we've looked have had something available on the web. But you need to be very conscietious of what you put on your site or blog. Too much personal information can be a turn-off to the person doing the hiring.