This surprises me all the time. Most people hire me without ever doing any research on me. I get to a job interview and they ask me if I know what "object oriented programming" means. Had they searched for my name, they would have found my name on the Wikipedia page for object oriented programming:
I have to assume that other people put a blog on their resume, but its a mostly un-used site, so the maybe the employers get in the habit of ignoring personal sites? I've written on hundreds of technical topics over the years, but no one is ever aware of this when I arrive in a job interview.
Likewise, no one has ever checked my projects on Github.
I don't even cop to having a github, and I don't have anything useful on my "public" github.
But where I have public-facing projects' URLs on my resume - interviewers seem to be completely clueless about them. They'll ask me questions about a topic, and I'll point them to that URL on my resume as an example of how I know that area, or did that task.
It seems like they only read the "skills overview" blurb at the top, that we put there to get through the search filters - and they don't read the work history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming
And I've never gone to a job interview where people knew I had a blog, even though I list the blog on my resume:
http://www.smashcompany.com/
I have to assume that other people put a blog on their resume, but its a mostly un-used site, so the maybe the employers get in the habit of ignoring personal sites? I've written on hundreds of technical topics over the years, but no one is ever aware of this when I arrive in a job interview.
Likewise, no one has ever checked my projects on Github.