How To Use Twitter To Search For Jobs

Everyday millions of people around the world are using twitter as an effective tool to reach out to other people.

With the job market being more competitive, employers and job seekers are turning to social networking sites such as twitter for job hunting and recruitment. Twitter can be used effectively when looking for a job to make valuable connections with potential employers and find prospective job listings.

Jobs can be searched on the Twitter website itself by going to search.twitter.com and typing in keywords for the particular job you are looking for such as “accountant new york”. Results for those keywords will be listed.

Job search engines like TwitJobSearch are helping employers and job seekers by searching for employment ads and organizing them into job tweets. The TwitJobSearch website allows you to login into your twitter account and search for jobs by:

Search and Advanced search – type in keywords that is specific to the job you are searching for.
Browsing job categories – browse jobs listed under categories such as Accountancy, Banking, Consulting services and many more.
Map search – jobs tweeted within the past 72 hours are marked on a world map. Zoom in to your city and click on the twitter icon and it will bring up all jobs listed in that city.

TwitJobSearch has now teamed with TweetDeck to bring you JobDeck a new desktop job search platform. JobDeck makes it easier to search for job listings as well as connect with contacts across Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

Online job service TweetMyJobs connects employers and job seeks by tweeting job postings. Job seekers subscribe to “job channels” for their desired job type and city. When jobs become available you will receive text messages regarding new job postings. The TweetMyJobs website allows you to search for jobs by:

Search – type in job title/keywords and city
Browse by company – 7,476 Companies listed
Browse by Country – EVERY country in the world is covered
Map Search – Jobs that have been listed in the last 7 days are marked on the map. Just zoom to your desired location and click on icon to see the list of jobs.

If you are job seeking via social networking sites it is important to remember that recruiters and prospective employers are now conducting online research on potential applicants using various sources (social networking sites, search engines, photo sharing sites, blogs and various other sites). It is important to promote and protect your online identity and reputation by being careful about what you post.  An inappropriate comment or photo posted by you could mean that you are rejected as a candidate for a job.  Post content that would be favourable to an employer or recruiter and always assume that anything that you have written or posted can be viewed by everyone.

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