Tuesday, September 16, 2008

The wave of the future

Every once in a while you see a news article with someone who should know better moaning about how his employer googled him and found pictures of him partying or doing something dumb and so he didn't get the job.  Sometimes these articles conclude that someone ought to Do Something to prevent employers from doing that.

That's stupid.  You do your homework on companies to see if you want to work for them; it's only fair to expect that they might want to return the favor.

But this can be a Good Thing, too.  In my technical interview today, the interviewer told me, "I'm supposed to ask you some Python questions, but I read your blog [he meant the professional one, of course], and we don't need to waste our time with those.  Let me tell you about the positions that might be a good fit for you here, instead."

(This brings up one reason you don't want to settle for a boring, unchallenging job: what would there be to blog about?)

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