Recruiting via Twitter

Rithesh Nair & Dave Gombka Recruiting via Twitter

What's Twitter ?

It’s a Microblog

You follow the people that matter to you and vice versa

No Long Message – Only 140 Characters

It’s a Marketing , Branding – Used for Information Pulling and Pushing- Conferences, News, Recruiting, Networking

Send messages from SMS , Web ,IM ,Email etc.

Other Microblogs

Friendfeed

Jaiku

Plurk

Pownce

Twine

Identi.ca

Social networking websites Facebook , MySpace , LinkedIn , and Xing also have their own micro-blogging feature

Where to Start

Sign Up

Build your profile (Username /Your Bio)

Start Following other recruiters

Follow your interest , area of recruiting

Follow friends , Co- Workers, Experts, Websites, News

Keep Adding and Deleting (Yes)

And Above all start sending messages

Avoid things like what you ate for breakfast

Tools I like

http://search.twitter.com -It searches tweets from any users. It has advanced search feature. You can RSS your subjects, Company or even yourself.

http://monitter.com -" monitter" for a set of keywords

http://tweetscan.com – Searches Twitter

http://tweetdeck.com –Tweet Organizer

http://www.twellow.com - Searches Bio,Name,Location

http://www.tweepsearch.com -Bios of ur Followers

http://tweetbeep.com -Alerts for Twitter

http://twithire.com - Free Job board for Twitter

http://www.tweetlater.com -One of the best

How it Works? @username + message Directs a twitter at another person, & causes your twitter to save in their "replies" tab. Ex: @candidate do you want to hear about a opening with KPMG? D username + message Sends a person a private message that goes to their device, and saves in their web archive. WHOIS username Retrieves the profile information for any public user on Twitter. GET username Retrieves the latest Twitter update posted by the person. NUDGE username Reminds a friend to update by asking what they're doing on your behalf. FAV username Marks a person's last twitter as a favorite.

Twitter Tools