How a comment on a blog led to a job

This is a great example of how job hunting is changing, and for the better. Today's workforce is blog savvy and more stories like this are cropping up. For the smart job hunter its the way to go.

Andrew Cafourek, a recent grad from the University of Missouri, left a comment on the blog of popular social media analyst Jeremiah Owyang's blog. And guess what a recruiter from a hip new company saw it and offered him a job! Gotta love it. Here's an excerpt from Andrew's blog post about how it happened.

"As of next Monday, I will be starting work for Outrider, a strategic marketing company based out of St. Louis. I will be coming on board as a Social Media Specialist and working with a small team of other people in the social media area to develop integrated online media strategies and marketing plans for clients. Anyone can see the world is shifting to a more online-centric, social place and the best evidence I can find of this is in the way I came into my new position.

A few weeks ago, I was reading Jeremiah Owyang’s blog and saw a post on people who were “on the move” in the social media industry. I thought, well what is wrong with a little bit of self-promotion? So I left a comment, which you are free to go check out for yourself, basically saying “Hey, I haven’t been on the move…but I would like to be!” And as a result of this, Lisa Young from Outrider reached out to me with some information about the company and the industry as a whole..then I spent a day and a half pouring through Google and every other internet tool I could think of to absorb as much information as I could about the company. Well over the past few weeks, about 97.4 emails, and dozens of hours spent researching different aspects of the company and industry I decided that I really wanted to come on board with the firm and so…here I go!"