5 mediocre ways to find a job using Twitter

Posted on | May 7, 2009 | No Comments

Are people searching for jobs using Twitter? At Personforce we have no idea, but it seems like an interesting idea. We recently made a feed of jobs posted across our network available on Twitter.  Follow Personforce on Twitter to see the latest jobs right in your feed.

There are a variety of ways you can use Twitter to aid your job search. Some of them aren’t actually that useful (yet) and are kind of mediocre (right now), but you never know how important they will become someday. So here is our list of 5 mediocre ways to find a job using Twitter:

1. Follow your favorite job sites on Twitter. Many of them publish a feed of featured listings.

2. Track the hashtag #jobs using Twitter search. Most job listings are tagged, so you can see what jobs people post to Twitter using Twitter Search. Frankly the volume of postings is so high it’s hard to make sense of the results.

3. Follow the companies you’re interested in working for on Twitter. Follow some of the interesting people who work at those companies.

4. Write a professional description of yourself and tag the post #resume

5.  Try using Twitter job search engines to browse through the job postings on Twitter.

Right now, I don’t think too many of these strategies are producing high dividends for job seekers (it’s probably easier to lose your job using Twitter than finding one right now). But hey, in a couple of years this might be an more important channel for finding jobs.

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