Bloggers Need Not Apply
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Friday, July 8, 2005
By IVAN TRIBBLE
Ivan Tribble is the pseudonym of a humanities professor at a small liberal-arts college in the Midwest

If you are going to write a blog, take a look at this article. It is about how job candidates should really be concerned about what their blog says along with what their resume says.

The article mentions that while the search committee did not specifically exclude anybody based solely on their blog, it did give them valuable insight to the candidate which the committee generally viewed negatively. "In truth, we did not disqualify any applicants based purely on their blogs. If the blog was a negative factor, it was one of many that killed a candidate's chances. More often that not, however, the blog was a negative, and job seekers need to eliminate as many negatives as possible."

It makes one want to stop and think about what they are going to say before they say it. Is that always a good thing? Sometimes yes and sometimes no.

I tend to think of this as a professional blog. I attempt to help other medical librarians (including myself) by finding bits of information and opinions on medical databases, journals, research, online systems, etc. By keeping it more of a professional type of blog, I would hope in the future when I seek a new job, my blog does not eliminate me from consideration.

Maybe I should change my name to the Nervous Librarian instead of the Krafty Librarian.