26 May 2010
Of all the new social media tools, Twitter’s real-time nature has made it more challenging to adapt to standard media channels, including the use of Twitter in the online job market. Google, for example, is just starting to develop ways to include Twitter postings in its searches and page rankings. At the same time, the popular social media tool has pushed the creative envelope and is making the job market more dynamic and interesting.
New Twitter tools are appearing weekly and it is worth keeping up. TwitJobSearch is a job search tool that sits on your desktop. An advanced search function allows you to narrow your job search criteria. Do not wait long for this real-time job search trend to catch on. TwitJobSearch boasts over 300,000 new jobs in the last 30 days.
Take the opportunity to master some Twitter job search strategies from the many Twitter job search experts offering up their how-tos online. As soon as I am done writing this blog, I am going to go back to JobMob’s 20 Tips to Twitter Job Search Success to master some very useful tools and techniques, such as how to simulcast through other social media and target industry-specific feeds and people to follow. And do you know how to follow who your followers are following? Twubble will do the job.