Advance Your Career

Blogging can advance your career in multiple ways. Improving your skills, as just discussed, is the first way. But there is much more to it, depending on your current position and ambitions.

As an Employee

Blogging can help you land a better job. There are two primary ways that such can be the case.

First, your blog advertises to the world that you exist. Prospective employers may come across a particular blog post and be impressed by your depth of knowledge and your personality (remember to have a distinct voice that shines through in your writing). A post on my programming blog helped me land my current job at IBM, and I constantly receive job offers from some of the most popular tech companies in the world as a result ...

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