Gladwell's recent book 'Blink' is fascinating from many angles. From the job hunter's point of view he writes about how a prospective employer would be better off spending 10 minutes in a candidate's bedroom than meeting with them face-to-face for an hour at a time, once a week for a year. 52 hours v 10 minutes. However both are pretty much unlikely to occur.
The theory goes that we each have so much accumulated knowledge and general expertise in human nature that the signals that can be picked up from a prospective candidates bedroom are more telling than 52 hours of interviews. How I arrange my books, what books I read, what music is on my iPod, are the clothes all over the place or are they stacked neatly in colour order, what art work/posters adorn my walls.
Do you want a prospective employer wandering around your bedroom? I don't. So I think the answer is to turn our blogs into our bedrooms. Look at the stuff we put in our 'digital bedrooms' – you can see the ads I've created that I think are the best, my best work. You can see what book's I've read and want to read – how telling is that – plenty of Godin, no Proust. I've blogged about the movies I like and why and didn't like and why. You can see my passion, photography and what I think are my best pix. Catagorised. Filed. Sorted. Displayed. You can see my twitter updates and glean how open I am as a communicator. You may even be able to pick up on my sense of humour. Or lack thereof.
You can get to my LinkedIn profile and check out who I know professionally and where I've worked. And for whom.
As I look around my bedroom I can see every part of me; the good, the bad, the ugly.
So welcome to my bedroom. I'd be fascinated to know what you thought of me from what you see here.
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