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How To Get A Better Job By Blogging (Part Two)

BY: Charles Brown
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I don’t have to tell you how tough the job market is out there. But you now have the tools to break into just about any job you want, just by starting a blog on that subject.

This article is Part Two on the subject of how to leverage the power of blogging to become a recognized authority in whatever field you can become qualified for.

Here is my personal example. About ten years ago, I was a general practice attorney with a small law firm. I really had no specialty at all, but in law school I had taken every estate planning and tax law class that was offered. I really wanted to get a new job with a much better law firm and practice estate planning.

The problem was, my post law school experience was not in estate planning. I spent a lot of my own personal time studying estate law and I kept up on new changes in the law, but I had only written a few wills and one trust. Most of my legal experience was in unrelated areas of law.

Unfortunately, this was ten years ago and I had never heard of blogs and did not have the tech skills to set up a traditional website.

So, looking at this problem from the vantage of, “if I had only known what I know now,” here is what I would do now if I were seeking the same job change.

A job seeker today who wants to enter a new field, or wants to move up in an existing field, only needs to start writing a blog on that topic. Post four of five new articles every week and in six months or so this job seeker will become a recognized authority in that field.

Now, add writing online articles on that topic and publishing those articles on various article submission sites or article banks like Ezine articles, goarticles, articlecity or searchwarp, and the traffic to your blog and your search engine rankings go way up.

Suppose an employer reads one of your articles or visits your blog. Do you think this employer will have any trouble with the fact that you have no actual on the job experience in this field if your knowledge shows through from your articles and your blog? Hardly.

What does it take to succeed with this strategy? You need to have a genuine, real interest in the new field and you must be willing to study this topic on your own to become a real expert in this field. Then you must commit to writing no less than four or five new articles every week on this topic.

Remember what employers are looking for. They want to be assured they are not hiring someone who lacks the qualifications to do the job. But actual on the job experience is not the only way to gain those qualifications. If you are committed to becoming an expert on your own, your blog can show the world what you know.

COPYRIGHT © 2007, Charles Brown