{"id":846,"date":"2007-04-10T21:06:39","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T02:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=846"},"modified":"2007-04-10T21:06:39","modified_gmt":"2007-04-11T02:06:39","slug":"search-committees-and-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=846","title":{"rendered":"Search committees and the Web"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since many ministers (and to a lesser extent religious educators) in my denomination, Unitarian Universalism, schedule retirements or resignations to take place over the summer — that means that many Unitarian Universalist congregations are forming search committees right about now, getting ready to search for a new minister or religious educator. Today’s Wall Street Journal<\/em> has an article that job seekers and members of search committees should read. The article, “How Blogging on the Web Can Help You Get a New Job,” by Sarah Needleman (p. B1), is aimed at job seekers, telling them to think about how they can control their image using the Web:<\/p>\n

Job seekers who blog increase the odds that a potential employer will find information online that the candidate wants to be seen, says Debbie Weil, a corporate blogging consultant…. “Everybody has an online identity whether they know it or not, and a blog is the single best way to control is,” she says. “You’re going to be Googled. No one hires anyone or buys anything these days without going online first and doing research.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If I were on a search committee, that would make me think, “Hey, candidates are going to Google us just as we’re Googling them!” Therefore, as the Wall Street Journal<\/em> points out, why not consider shaping the online image of your congregation:<\/p>\n

Some companies encourage employees to blog because they can use them to recruit others. When recruiter Harry Joiner was hired to fill two positions at Musician’s Friend Inc. in November, he used an employee’s personal blog to help sell his client’s rural location of Medford, Ore., to job seekers. “Candidate were using Medford as a reason not to consider the jobs,” he says. “As a marketer, I thought, if you can’t change it, promote it.”<\/p>\n

The blog, by So Young Park, the company’s director of e-commerce…, describes her move to the area a year ago from New York City. It includes details about her work, … a bear sighting near her home, and related topics. While she started the blog to share information with family and friends back East, she acknowledges that it has also been a good resource for attracting job hunters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wonder if that kind of idea could help congregations in rural regions to attract top-quality talent. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since many ministers (and to a lesser extent religious educators) in my denomination, Unitarian Universalism, schedule retirements or resignations to take place over the summer — that means that many Unitarian Universalist congregations are forming search committees right about now, getting ready to search for a new minister or religious educator. Today’s Wall Street Journal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-administration","category-marketing-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}