Joe Grimm was one of the panelists at the ERExpo on the topic of Ask The Bloggers. Joe is a newspaper recruiter for the Detroit Free Press. His job is to find copy editors, reporters, and the other journalists that make up a big city newsroom.
Talk about specialization.
Joe, in addition to being one heck of a nice guy, knows just about everyone in the newspaper biz. That was his job - to network with journalists. So what did he do to improve his personal network?
Why, he blogs of course. Ask the Recruiter, while defined by Joe as more of a Q and A, uses blogginng software to run a column on recruiting questions. Covering such issues as references, using printouts as clips (the question is whether a printout of a newsstory is acceptable instead of using the actual newspaper article - it's a news recruiting question we don't often get), and other journalist specific quetions, Joe has increased the reach of his network, the approachability of the Detroit Free Press as a newspaper, and his sourcing pool.
Not bad for a dead tree recruiter. What can you do with your expertise?
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