Using Blogs in Interviews to Demonstrate Great Communication Skills

Communication skills in the business world today are vital to obtaining and keeping any job that may be offered to you in the future.  Employers today want evidence that a potential employee for their company has effective and clear communication skills.  A person needs to be able to clearly and effectively communicate in any medium that is appropriate for the company, which include both oral and written skills. (Dykeman, 2010)  Blogging provides excellent evidence that one knows how to communicate well and use proper grammar in doing so.

Professional blogging has become increasingly popular within companies for both external and internal use.  A blog that you can provide in an interview not only shows your communication skills, but also provides evidence towards your professionalism.  Blogs can be served as an advertisement tool for presenting yourself to companies.  For example, blogs allow you to show the company what sort of benefits your communication skills will offer.  (Lore, 2008) 

There are many collaboration technologies that companies use today and most of them are very effective, but many are hard to present professionally in an interview.  For example, text messaging or instant messaging are mostly directed towards friends and family, which you use a different style of writing towards.  Blogging allows you to write complete paragraphs to a specific audience and elaborate on your thoughts.  Overall, blogging is a quick and easy way to show employers how your communication skills are.      

Sources:
http://www.helium.com/items/543149-top-10-qualities-and-skills-employers-seek
Lore, N. (2008). How to write a masterpiece of a resumne. Rockport Institute. Retrieved on April 18, 2009, from http://www.rockportinstitute.com/resumes.html

The Use of Collaboration Technologies in Group Work

The use of collaboration technologies is an increasing process in businesses in today's world.  In today's business environment there are ways to communicate with one another that weren't around 10 years ago.  A few examples include:

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Wikis
• Blogs

Facebook and Twitter are great social networking sites to stay connected with friends or follow your favorite celebrities, but businesses have begun using these technologies immensely to provide a communication medium among employees.  Most people think blogs are just used as a place to post pictures and write about your whats going on in your life, but they can also be used for customer service or advertising new products.    Doing our group collaboration project on wikis educated me that there are much more to wikis than just Wikipedia.  Wikis are often used for project management, and they allow for people to edit and add notes or notices to the project as long as they have internet access. (Lynch, 2008)  The great thing about collaboration technologies is that they allow you to be in different places and still be able to communicate with employees in your company. 

The knowledge of collaboration technologies is necessary to succeed in the business world today.  As you can see the use of a collaboration technology increases communication skills and productivity within a company. (Chiu, 2009)  There are many more collaboration technologies other than the ones that were discussed today such as: Instant Messaging, Text Messaging, LinkedIN, and Google Docs.  The use of the technologies discussed today will provide companies with tools that allow for great communication across computers both externally and internally.  

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/156066/seven_tips_to_success_with_a_corporate_wiki.html
http://www.architechweb.com/tabid/171/ArticleID/8904/Default.aspx