Twitter and your job search

Twitter and your Job Search Philippe Gadeyne Social Media from strategy to implementation ™ 760-884-8081 [email_address]

Why Twitter?
Recruiters use of social media platforms
LinkedIn use grew from 80 percent in 2008 to 95 percent of respondents in 2009.
Facebook use grew from 36 percent in 2008 to 59 percent in 2009.
Twitter, ranked third with 42 percent of recruiters using the tool to source candidates

Your Twitter account

Your Twitter profile

Your Twitter information

Personalize

Simplify Twitter, use tools
Tweetdeck
Hootsuite
Tools like Tweetdeck and Hootsuite will help you centralize and organize your information, searches and communication.
They allow you to integrate Facebook and LinkedIn

Start following
Experts in your field
Official Twitter accounts of target companies
Recruiters in your field or your target companies
Employees in your target companies
Thought leaders
Industry news/magazines
Career coaches
Alumni associations

Organize
Use lists

Listen
What happens in your industry
What happens in your target companies
What are recruiters and hiring managers looking for
Look out for posts advertising new positions
Listen for advice from career coaches Get a feel for the kind of information circulating in your target market.

Retweet
Retweeting (or RT) shows your interest and get you noticed by the original poster
Retweeting shows you care and care to share good information with others
Retweeting is contributing

Post opinions
Start posting (Tweeting)opinions
Start posting valuable information and articles about your target job and industry
Start posting interesting articles that will help other job seekers

Engage
Start responding to posters
@username sends a message to the username and is visible to anybody following them
DM (or direct message) is a private way to contact them. They have to follow you back first
Create conversations

They want to hear from you
Increasingly, recruiters and hiring managers are looking for technology savvy candidate, show you are.

How do I do that?

140 characters at the time.

Where do I find companies and people to follow?
Tweetdeck/Hootsuite search feature
Twellow.com
Twitter “Find people” feature
WeFollow.com
Twibs.com
TwitFind.com
Use # (hashtags)

Looking for jobs on Twitter
TwitterJobSearch.com
TwitterJobFinders.com
TwitterJobCast.com
TweetMyJob.com
TwitHire.com
TwitaJob

Create search agents
Use RSS feeds and send the results to your outlook or RSS reader

Responding to a Job ad on Twitter

140 characters at a time

Be Concise
Use url shorteners
Twitter has its own now
Tweetdeck can do it automatically
Use Bit.ly
Send links to your resume online
LinkedIn
Visual CV
TwitRes
TwitSume

Twitter and your job search

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