I was having a debate with a friend on a recruiting question -- do recruiters go to a candidate paper's Web site and search on bylines to see what unfiltered clips look like?
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Do they use it to measure output? I figured they do, but my friend said, "They never did it with
LexisNexis, why would they do it now?"
You might be interested in my blog. It covers a range of topics, but the newspaper-related posts can be found
here.
Best,
Rocky 
True story: I met for a job fair interview with a guy I had spoken with before. To prepare for the interview, I had used
Nexis to print out his output for the preceding nine months or so.
Not only could I see how much he had written and where it had played, I could locate a period of low activity that was too long to be a vacation. We talked about what happened then.
I am not always that thorough. There is no reason to go to that length on every candidate. But I always can. And I can use Nexis, media company Web sites or search engines.
Nexis is the most expensive way to search, so that discourages some recruiters, but the others are free.
Coming Wednesday: The ex followed this journalist to a second newspaper and now wants to follow to a third. The journalist wonders how to stop this pursuit.
