3 Twitter Tools to Accelerate Your Job Search
According to a 2010 JobVite study, Twitter is one of the top three social media sites for employers and recruiters to use
to identify and source potential job candidates. Twitter is also a platform for someone in a job search to find job advice and job openings. My top three Twitter tools for a person in career transition are as follows:
1. Hashtags: Hashtags have the # sign preceding the words. Most commonly seen is the #FF / #FollowFriday where people on Twitter recommend some of their favorite people with whom they follow on Twitter.
Essentially, hashtags create a filing cabinet. Type a hashtag in the Twitter search box and you will arrive on a page that is filled with tweets containing that hashtag. I recommend for people to find the most commonly used hashtags at a website called hashtags.org. You can type in your keyword and find the most commonly used hashtag for that keyword. If you are looking for an IT job, you could type #ITjobs in the Twitter search box and yield job postings for that particular career track.
2. TweetMyJobs or Tweetajob: Both of these websites are job boards for Twitter. Tweetajob’s CEO estimates that between 300 and 500 job postings are tweeted daily while TweetMyJobs reports that they have had 1.6 million+ job postings from Twitter in the last 30 days. Pretty overwhelming, right? The beauty of these job boards is that you are able to enter in your search parameters and zone in on jobs within a certain geographic location or even a company. While hashtags are good to understand and use, Twitter job boards such as TweetMyJobs or Tweetajob makes locating jobs of interest on Twitter a snap.
3. Joining Chats: When you are launching a job search, many people have questions (i.e., best formats for resumes, what is personal branding, how to prepare for an interview, etc.). Twitter has career professionals who have chats that occur on a scheduled basis. Some of the most common include #brandchat, #jobhuntchat, #careerchat, and #hirefriday. Go to Twitter and enter in the hashtag (i.e., #jobhuntchat) on the scheduled time it meets. You will need to enter this hashtag at the end of your question or comment for it to appear real-time in the Twitter chat.
Additionally, you can type in hashtags, such as #jobseekers, #jobsearch, #resume, #resumewriting, and more to see tweets that contain advice, links to articles, blog posts, resources, and more.
Twitter is a fertile ground for forging networking connections through chats and identifying potential job opportunities. Learning how to utilize the tools available through Twitter will facilitate your job searching efforts and may be the door to open for new possibilities. In my next article, I will show you how to set up for your Twitter profile on the new Twitter platform that has recently launched, giving you critical information that you need to fast-track your success with Twitter.
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