Click "Play our jingle". Do it. You know you want to. ... and is it wrong that you're supposed to ask a *mermaid* about which *fish* to eat? CotS: Hire me for your copywriting. Really.
Church of the Consumer notes some 'best of..." lowlights from P/R reps attempting the new "blogger outreach".
I, too, have gotten upticks in the way wild pitches from the bait of some free prizes to just the overly friendly attempt to 'make buddies'.
My own advice: keep it quick, keep it relevant, be upfront and direct. Then go away. I'll either bite and connect back with you, or I won't. Your sales pitch is prob not gonna make us insta-friends, so keep it real.
WSJ explains that corporate recruiters are increasingly looking to applicants' blogs for information on their outside interests, industry knowledge and writing skills. As Wal-Mart recruiter Ryan Loken said, "If they have a blog or made a comment on one, you can see what their knowledge level truly is because resumes can be full of fluff.