So what can be done with a tech blog?
Become more valuable to the employer
The summary of IT specialists takes into account not only work experience , but also interests outside the project. A blog is an indicator that you are ready, conditionally, not only to write code for several hours a day, but also to deepen your knowledge and share it with others.
By publishing several articles a year, you show initiative. Employers consider such candidates valuable: enterprising people boldly take on non-standard tasks, are happy to learn new things - all this is very important for working and developing in IT.
Make yourself known in the professional community
A blog is a good opportunity to create a platform for discussion and gather experts from your field around you. You will write useful articles - they will be shared, and more people will learn about your blog. Among them are likely to be the so-called opinion leaders in IT.
Suddenly one day you want to speak at a conference ? A blog will come in handy here. Firstly, you will already have material: one of the articles can be taken as the basis for the presentation. Secondly, one of the organizers of the conference may know you in absentia, because he read your article, which was shared on social networks by his friends. Seems unlikely? But it happens. And when you know - it's always better. Especially in Russia, where the selection of speakers at the conference is non-anonymized.
Improve writing skills
For those who want to grow in IT, it is no longer enough to understand only their subject area well. Along with technical skills, it is important to develop soft skills - soft, non-specialized skills. These include the ability to clearly communicate their thoughts, write letters to colleagues.
Writing blog articles is a great opportunity to develop these skills. By blogging, you learn how to write clear, persuasive, well-structured texts. People understand you, they do not need to waste time on additional questions, you need to clarify. Clear language will save both you and the reader time and nerves. And this doesn't just apply to blogging.
Become more valuable to the employer
The summary of IT specialists takes into account not only work experience , but also interests outside the project. A blog is an indicator that you are ready, conditionally, not only to write code for several hours a day, but also to deepen your knowledge and share it with others.
By publishing several articles a year, you show initiative. Employers consider such candidates valuable: enterprising people boldly take on non-standard tasks, are happy to learn new things - all this is very important for working and developing in IT.
Feel your benefit
For those who work in IT - and especially in a large company - it can be difficult to feel the benefits. You write pieces of code for some system, or you test this system, or you support it. Sometimes it seems that all work is a drop in a huge sea, and if it were not for it, nothing would have changed. This, of course, is not true. But realizing your worth can be difficult. Especially when the result is stretched over time and the manager does not give feedback.
Everyone wants to feel needed and important, and a blog is an opportunity to get this feeling. If your articles are useful, you will get a good response and a lot of people will read them. Surely, with the help of your work, someone will understand a new technology, and someone will be able to solve a long-standing working problem.
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