Blogging--pros and cons

"Windows Into Lives After a Layoff" by Alinea Dizik, a recent Wall Street Journal article, points out that as layoffs increase, some job seekers are using blogs to share their experience and felling. Some believe that blogging has helped them find a sense of community, as well as show potential employers that they are keeping up with the market. One of them, Ms.Levy, who was laid off in july, says "blogging gives her something to talk about in her interviews". For others, blogging about a layoff helps them find new job opportunities. As many of them use blogs as a place to put resume and show their professional writing skills, blogs become a new place to find employees. A personal blog can be used as a minor to show how a person view the world. Dan Kaplan, a partner at a new york executive search firm says "Carefully written blogs can make candidates stand out."
However, not all blogs help people in their career. Since many laid off bloggers use blogs to share their feeling, their former employers got angered with their writing. After Kilpatrick wrote on his blogs "wanted to find a really great job that didn't give layoffs as a christmas bonus", his employer got so angry. Such a common, recruiters believe can hurt a candidate's chance of getting a interview because it is very unprofessional to say bad word about their formal employers. Ms.Chatman, a professor at Berkeley warns that "having too many personal details available online can be easily misunderstand by a potential employers who is interested in hiring the professional you." Moreover, keeping a blog can turn into a significant time consuming active with unclear reward.