Dan Schawbel's personal brand

In 6 months Dan Schwabel has made a name for himself via blogging. He just launched danschawbel.com;

I just launched a unique Personal Branding website ( DanSchawbel.com). I consider it to be the first 360 degree view of a Personal Brand, using myself as an example. My pitch is that everyone in the world will need to have their own custom version in order to have a successful career. I took my professional life and crossed it with my personal life and mixed it with my love for Personal Branding, while integrating it with all web 2.0 technologies.

Dan's the man!

Employer blogs about job, job seeker blogs to get job

About a year ago, this company posted a job opening on its blog. But it wasn't the usual job description of 'send us a resume'. They asked interested candidates to add a comment with a link to their online presence and a way to contact them.

Fred, however, quickly came up with a refinement of the idea – asking people to reply by commenting on the post and pointing us to their web presence, a blog, a site, or a profile page - that made the idea work. You can see the results by looking through the comments on our post. We did not get over run and the quality of the folks who commented blew us away.

Enter Andrew Parker. Here's his blog and website. He got the job.