Yesterday I wrote an article about how to use LinkedIn to find a job using your contacts in the process. I also believe that it is important to understand your own needs, wants and desires when you go looking for a job thinking that a job is as big a purchase as a house or a car. You simply do not go into a large transaction where time and money is on the line without at least understanding what you are looking for.

I also think that it is important that the company you go work for be compatible with your own style and belief systems. If you hate micro management but end up working for a boss who is a consummate micromanager then this does no one any good. So I recommended a personality test to help work out the major things that a job seeker thinks is important so that they can match them to their own needs and wants.

Then I send them off to Glassdoor and Jobvent to take a look at companies from a self reporting segment of the community so that they can work out the general corporate personality and the plus and minuses of working there.

Then I send them off to LinkedIn to learn how to do the job search there.

The intention was good, but in 24 pages it is impossible to be the end all and be all of how to “take your job to the next level”. Which has generated some very interesting if hostile responses to the paper online in the various places that it has shown up, one site in particular seems to have attracted a dissonant audience which is good, because controversy sells page views. Which is great, I get paid for page views on the site that seems to be attracting the more passionate group of folks.

The responders did not have the courage of conviction – rather than using their real names (or even any name for that matter, it didn’t need to be theirs) they used pseudo anonymity that blog comments tend to offer. Hey nothing wrong with that, I also own the blog service logs so I know what time you made the comment, and I know what IP you came from. From there it is trivial to find out your ISP, an approximate geographic location and see if someone is really a determined threat.

That also works for e-mail; there is always an audit trail. So if you send me e-mail with threats, or calling me stupid – why not turn that around – do something better than I did. That is the challenge, if anyone does not agree with anything I say, that is cool – but do me one better, make your own statement in your own world and do not forget the link back. Maybe we can have a good conversation with dueling blogs.

There is a worthy challenge to anyone who does not agree with what I say or how I say it, do something better, get online, blog about it, have an opinion and fully support it with an alias or your own real name. Otherwise, I’ll just simply laugh, thank you for your time, and discount it because you offered no good viable alternative, no solution, only a diatribe of language that was ill considered and ill timed. Trolls do not need to make sense; they simply want to get attention and will go to great lengths to get that attention. In the longer run hiding behind anonymity in blog comments is just one simple reason why so many blog comments are so easily discounted.

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