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Discussion on: Does blogging really help your career?

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Thomas H Jones II

Personal blogging as specifically career-enhancing (i.e., a difference-maker in whether you land a given job)? Probably not - but likely depends on your career-path.

Blogging is one of those things you do for yourself. If others find value in your writing great ...but it's just gravy.

That said, if you're looking for an excuse to avoid writing, you're really only hurting yourself. Often times, the difference between the guy who gets the promotion and the one who doesn't is in how well you communicate. The more frequently you write, the more practiced you become at it. If promotion isn't a concern - which is to say, you feel that your financial advancement-path will only ever need to come through job-hopping - then how well you write likely isn't a concern.