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Writing helps share the knowledge you have acquired and can lead to your next job. This approach spreads the message of your job search in a viral fashion. It helps you establish yourself as an expert in a particular field. Then when you get to the interview stage, it helps the hiring manager certify your expertise.

In your professional career to date, you have learned skills or acquired talents / abilities that many people don’t have. While you likely take many of these things for granted, others do not. People with less experience in a given industry will likely gain a lot from reading about the lessons you have learned.

When people gain some new knowledge or a new perspective, they are likely to talk about it. They will often share links back to the site that led to their enlightenment. Further, if the reader is aware that the writer is in need of some assistance, such as help with a job search, they will be more likely to point HR people to your writing and/or website. Each reader has the potential of heralding your needs to a potential employer.

Additionally, the reader then intentionally or unintentionally adds you to a list of experts in the specialized field you have written about. With every regular reader you attract, you expand your field of expertise by one person. Thanks to the joys of the internet, this expansion costs you nothing once the article is published. This frees the writer to continue publishing new information while your following grows virtually unmanned.

One of the biggest challenges any hiring manager faces is the task of verifying the candidate’s claims. Creating short articles, a detailed blog, and/or social media properties make this task easier for the hiring manager. With such stiff competition in the job market today, there is strong motivation for job seekers to “fudge” the facts on their resume. The process of reviewing resumes and interviewing candidates seeks to accomplish many goals in a series of short conversations. One of the biggest tasks the interviewer seeks to accomplish is the validation of the candidate’s skills and background. Pre-existing publications on topics relevant to the job opening allow the interviewer to certify your knowledge without having to conduct extensive interviews or background checks.

Writing creates several competitive advantages in the job search process. It also has the added benefits of helping the business community, sharpening your own skills, and creating relationships within the industry. If you have not had a great deal of luck using traditional job search techniques, you may want to try your hand at writing.

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