atw: Re: Blogging and employers
- From: "John Catania" <jcatania@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 16:22:52 +1000
Absolutely crazy! I'm one of the few supposedly 'Gen Y' people (born in 1981)
who are expected to worship at the alter of Facebook, Blogger, Twitter et.al;
but I don't particularly feel any affinity to those types of digital
confessional diaries (let's face it, that's all they are). Maybe I'm too 'old
school' for my age'; I'm really a member of what I call Generation Sigh - stuck
in no-man's land between Gen X and Y; young enough to be indoctrinated in the
digital revolution, but old enough to know better.
Seriously, how discriminatory is it for employers to judge perfectly
intelligent, competent people, on their passion to write grammatically correct,
though hideously self-indulgent, rants about their lives? It's ludicrous!
So, is this rant considered a suitable blog? If so, where do I sign up for the
job?
John Catania
----- Original Message -----
From: James Hunt
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 10:53 AM
Subject: atw: Blogging and employers
There is an interesting current job ad on a Web site, for a technical editor.
There is no need for a link - the latest version of the ad leads off with:
"UPDATE: THIS IS NOT A TECHNICAL WRITER POSITION. please read the entire
advertisment clearly and in full before applying."
- and that takes care of most of us, even those who can read clearly.
This paragraph in the ad is the interesting one:
"A tip for potential candidates, only those who have blogs and relevant
memberships will be taken seriously as this is a key indicator to passion for
the web. Of course those blogs will be well written and predominantly free from
errors."
Did I miss the revolution here? When did blogging change from an unpaid hobby
to a mandatory job qualification? How common is it for potential employers of
editors or writers to make demands like this? And how long before we are judged
on our Twittering?
JH
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