Here’s some excellent info from JobMob’s Jacob Share on how to jump-start your job search on Twitter, including organizing and accessing a global directory of job search feeds:
Share says to begin your search with these guidelines:
- Create an account on Twitter unless you have one already.
- Download and install a Twitter reader like TweetDeck or Seesmic Desktop. Tweetdeck uses Groups and Seesmic Desktop has Userlists which allow you to organize Twitter users for easier following. Use this categorization feature to separate the Twitter job feeds from the other Twitter users you follow so that all your Twitter job search information is kept in one convenient place that isn’t overwhelmed by other tweets.
- If you know where you’d like to work, click the corresponding country flag [on his global directory] to jump down to a local Twitter job feed list and then begin following local feeds in your industry. Then scan the International section which lists Twitter job feeds that include job openings from 3 countries or more. Or you can jump directly to it by clicking the globe icon at the end of the row of flags.
- If you have a chosen industry and are open to moving for jobs, type CTRL+F in your browser to search this article for keywords related to your profession like ‘design’, ‘accounting’, ‘developer’, etc., and then follow the Twitter job feeds that are most relevant among the results, regardless of country.
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June 20th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Really? Is this site becoming nothing more than the “anything but employment sites” blog? Using Twitter to find work doesn’t seem to be the most efficient way in which to go about it.
If this were 1980 (prior to the Internet when daily papers ruled with the Sunday employment section), Cheezhead (assuming it had a column back then), would probably be advising it’s readers to use the Yellow pages to search for jobs – or the CB radio – “hey good buddy, got a job for me?”
More often than not, the articles posted on this site don’t seem practical in today’s world. Perhaps Twitter, mobile devices, social networking sites will evolve and help job seekers find employment at some point, but right now, today, that isn’t the best approach – and the objective research/stats prove this. But I guess when it comes to this blog site, vapor-technology rules.