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!

My blog got me a promotion!

Congrats to Matt Martone of Hotjobs. His blog is 1 yr old today, and wouldn't you know it? It got him a promotion. Read about it here.

Just another example of those who blog for jobs.

Brian Balfour's blog leads to job

Brian Balfour, a 23 year old who writes a blog called Social Degree, got his latest job through his own blog. The online profile site ZoomInfo hired him based on his blog. Russell Glass, VP of Marketing saw his blog and liked what he wrote about social networking and offered him a job. "I was impressed by the points brian was making and the way he was making them", said Glass.

Nice job Brian! Just another way people are blogging for jobs.

A billboard, a blog and a job hunter

Check out HireGary.net. This guy wanted a job so bad he started a website , blog and put his resume on a billboard. On his site he talks about his efforts;

Why the billboard and website?

I'm a marketing guy by trade, and I figured what better way to promote myself than with the media I've worked with to promote Broadway shows, minor league baseball and a host of other things. Superbowl commercials were a tad pricey, and I don't really fit any one radio demographic, so outdoor and internet seemed like a great fit.

Doesn't this smack of desperation?
On the one hand, it allows me to demonstrate some of my design, copywriting, media buying, promotions, public relations and general creative skills in a real world example. On the other hand, yea, probably a little.