Using Twitter to Promote Yourself during Job Search

Twitter is another great tool in the toolbox to promote your qualifications during a job search. The intent is to have potential employers and networking contacts read your tweets.

A couple of thoughts to help get you started

One: Keep it professional and positive

Two: focus on your profession only – especially where you can give advice from personal experience

Three: If you have skills that cannot be easily trained, put those in your tweets, as employers will need to hire someone with them

Four: Tweet on issues/experiences that will likely be raised in an interview/networking

Five: Before starting to Tweet. Write your first 50 tweets. People will go to your profile and review your tweets – so best to have them organized versus random thoughts. So tweet with purpose (I’d wager no one has ever told you that before).

Six: Retweet other good thoughts from people you follow – recognizing good content is as valuable as giving it

Seven: Manage who you follow and who follows you (e.g. Blocking anyone who has ‘Check out my hot profile’ is advised!)

Put your Twitter ID on your business cards (along the URLs for personal blogs, LinkedIn profile, etc.) – so people know you’re tweeting.

Good luck today!

Mark Richards
www.candidateschair.com

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