Using Twitter for Jobsearch

I welcome myself to the Twitjobs community with this first post :)

Social Media is hot now-a-days & its here to stay!
At this stage when Facebook & Twitter have emerged as 2 of the fastest growing social media platforms for both employers & job seekers, Twitjobs couldn’t have come at a better time.

I have been recently involved with quite a bit of social recruiting myself and find certain inhibitions associated with the usage of Twitter especially for seeking jobs- both with freshers & seasoned professionals.

The reason being micro blogging has a limited number of characters- how could one possibly explain all about oneself in 160 characters to a prospective employer. How on earth could all the experience & achievements be highlighted? And how would an employer know or even find out about any candidate through twitter. How could a twitter-oriented jobsite ever be successful ?

Well for starters, create your profile on twitter with a neat background which can be chosen from among the choices available. Backgrounds can even be bought but I don’t see the need for expense when it is not linked in anyway to benefit a job seeker with the actual purpose of getting a job!
Upload a neat professional photo of yourself as it lends a personal touch to anyone checking out your profile as they can then visualize how you look rather than being a complete stranger.

Use the one-liner introduction provided by Twitter very smartly to highlight yourself as a serious professional or apt resource for an recruiter. Provide a link to your CV/Resume or a website that gives out more information about yourself, your achievements and/or experience.

After making a good profile for yourself search all the possible companies that you intend to apply to for jobs on twitter and since some or many might be using twitter on their corporate website you could find out about the openings whenever they tweet. But then what about the companies that aren’t using this microblogging platform? After all social media is just catching up..most of the organizations are not yet ‘twitter-savvy’ or rather even ‘social savvy’ !

That’s where Twitjobs.co.uk comes in. Follow this twitter oriented job site & you would come to know all the openings there are across numerous organizations in various domains. Twitjobs.co.uk is not just limited to job openings in the UK but also recently launched itself in the US & would be soon in India as well.

Follow like minded individuals or lists that deal with your area of work. A credible way to find out how successful or reliable the person/ website/ group you’re following is by checking the follower Vs Following ratio. The more the merrier!
By following experts you would come to know what conferences they attend, which events could be useful to you & what really is in their mind.
Re-tweet & pass along useful information from which people in related fields could benefit.

Give & spread the knowledge..thats how you will also get & attain the knowledge
Happy Tweeting :)

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Karishma Daswani is a Human Resource Consultant.
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