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Blogs as part of your c.v.?

"Are blogs the new way to get a job? With 55 million blogs on the Internet and 100,000 more being created daily, some bloggers are wondering whether personal weblogs will replace traditional CVs and résumés when job-hunting." Paul Smaglick's Prospect column in this week's Nature discusses some of the advantages and disadvantages of blogs as career tools.
Full article at: Nature 446, 343 (2007) | doi:10.1038/nj7133-343a.

Posted by Maxine Clarke on March 15, 2007
Categories: Careers | | Comments (1)

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Maxine adds: There is quite a bit of debate about the Prospect editorial on various blogs. An interesting one is here:
http://scienceblogs.com/highlyallochthonous/2007/03/do_blogging_and_cvs_mix.php -- both the post itself and the comments to it.

Posted by: Maxine | March 21, 2007 09:00 AM

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