From DICE, April 17, 2009...
It’s a big day for Twitter: Oprah has arrived! So get ready for even more Twitter hype.
While this social networking phenomenon hasn’t cured cancer yet, a flurry of articles, hype, and cable news personalities has it solving just about every other malady that plagues mankind. I’m not sure I buy into all this noise just yet, but I’m willing to listen. At Forbes, for example, Tara Weiss can fill you in on how to use Twitter to find a job. The article does include a few inspiring success stories, such as this one.
[Kyle Flaherty] left his marketing position in Boston last spring determined to find an in-house public relations job. He tweeted (Twitter lingo for posting a message) about his decision and included a link to his professional blog, where he described the kind of work he was looking for. Within days his tweet was retweeted. That is, an acquaintance forwarded it–to his current boss.
Sounds so simple.
The real advice here is simply to use Twitter as yet another way to put yourself in front of people who make hiring decisions. The way you do that is to find them by doing various searches on your industry and even recruiting firms that work in your field and then follow their “tweets.” Respond eloquently when appropriate, and slowly build up your online identity by posting your own intelligent tweets about your industry and hope people start following you.
The good news is that all this is rather effortless so it won’t be a major time sink for people already wrapped up in other social networks such as Facebook and LinkedIn.
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