Wouldn’t you just love to create a job at a company that you want to work for and then fill that job? Did you know that blogging about your college or university can actually land you a job with your school? That’s right, the blogging phenomenon has been recognized as a legitimate medium. And guess what? This is actually just one of many benefits that you can enjoy from blogging about your college or university.
The Benefits
Believe it or not, some universities have recently hired a few of their students to blog about their experiences at school. By doing this, the universities hope to help prospective students get a better idea about life at their institution. Thus, if you start a blog about your university or college, you actually may end up having a chance to do it for money!
In today’s working world, employers are keenly aware of the fact that the pressure is on them to hire excellent people to fill out their teams. Therefore, employers are making efforts to get a full, comprehensive picture of their prospective employees. For these reasons, employers spend time looking at their candidates’ MySpace pages and their blogs. If you have blogged about your university experience, your employer will be able to see how well you took advantage of this great opportunity. As a result, your chances of landing the job you want are increased.
Blogging about your experience in an institution of higher learning can also serve as a journal and chronicle. Journalling about the things you learn and the experiences you have will help cement important teachings, facts, and principles in your mind and heart. Additionally, you will be able to refer to this chronicle of your life as a student in the coming years.
A final benefit of blogging about your college or university is that you can make money from ads. Colleges and universities are high on the list of most commonly searched-for words and phrases. Thus, companies will see the benefit of putting ads on your blog, as long as your blog can demonstrate good amounts of traffic. While it might seem strange, some people are able to live off of the money they make from their blogs.
How to reap the benefits
A discussion of the benefits of blogging about your college or university would not be complete if we did not take time to examine some principles that, when followed, will help to reap said benefits. Here are some guidelines to follow when blogging about your school. These will increase your chances at getting the most out of your college or university experience.
* Avoid the common blog parlance and total abandonment of the conventions of writing. This means that you want to not use the Internet chat acronyms that are so common today, such as ROFL, NSFW and others. You also want to use capital letters when appropriate and follow good rules of punctuation.
* Try to structure your posts. Having your posts be basically a vomiting of every thought in your brain may be entertaining for friends, but will be mostly unintelligible to a general audience. So think about what you are going to say and how you will say it. Then get it down with honesty and staying true to your voice.
* Try not to vent ceaselessly and needlessly. You can certainly feel free to mention and describe in detail problems you face and weaknesses you detect in your school. Just be sure to think through your position to make sure you don’t prove to everyone that you are a fool by opening your mouth, so to speak.
So what are you waiting for? Get to blogging!
