[jnaour]

What I feel right now is that the hiring process is more and more based on personnal branding. If you want to have a job interview in top startup you have to have a good github, smart blog posts, a good stackoverflow, a good kaggle, some certificats from coursera, some conf etc.

It's a good thing for hiring process, you could judge a candidat more easely if you could read some of his code or thoughts. You could have more interesting job offers from people that actually understand what you do. The problem is that you have to spend lot of time in improving these things. Some are easy because it's natural to do some work on a open source project that you're interested in, the personnal branding thing it's just a bonus, but some other need works...

I believe that in all automatic job applying process that I tried recently there were fields for linkedin, github, personnal blogs, websites etc.

[ryandrake]

A company that relies on GitHub and blog posts will miss tons of highly-qualified candidates who don't (or cannot due to their employment agreement) work on open source and who don't spend their weekends blogging and posting to StackOverflow. Sure, I can see interesting programming side projects being a nice bonus, but it's not a replacement for a resume + technical interview.