Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’

Fantastic post up on the 45 Things blog called Twitter Tips for Job Seekers. This article includes a list of excellent rules to follow if you plan on using Twitter as part of your job search.

Among the advice:

Sound smart. Use proper punctuation, grammar and spelling. Using all lower case and lots of text acronyms makes you look and sound like an eighth grader.

and…

Clean tweets, only. Don’t tweet – or retweet – anything profane, racist, sexist or anything you wouldn’t say to your grandmother.

and finally…

No whining. We all know the job market is tough and looking for work can be difficult. But employers want to get to know people who confront challenges and are energized by them. When you blame outside forces for your woes: “The economy sucks. My state sucks. My school sucks,” employers fear the bitching could extend to them if they employ you, so they move on.

All in all, this is a great article for any progressive job hunter to read. Check it out here.

There’s a fantastic article up on CNN Money about using social networking to find work. I Found My Job On Twitter shares the stories of a few people who have had success in job hunting on Twitter and other sites.

While the article doesn’t offer much practical advice about how to go about finding a job through social networking sites, it does show that it’s possible. And in such a tough economy, staying positive makes a real difference.

Here’s a snippet:

If it weren’t for Jen Harris’ followers on Twitter, she would not have been notified of another job opportunity, only moments after getting laid off from Idaho-based MPC computers in October.

As Harris packed up her desk she sent out a tweet that read: “just been laid off from MPC.”

“By the time I left the parking lot, I had a job offer from a friend that had a Web development company in town,” she said.

While it isn’t yet the norm to find your next job via Twitter, this only goes to show that you that jobs are out there to be found if you look in the right places.

Sweet!

The good people at the Pongo Resume Blog released their list of 20 Twitter Tweeple Who Can Help Your Career and they were gracious enough to include Gradversity! What an honor!!

But wait, there’s more!

The list has 19 other great career experts who are worth following as well, including some of the TAP experts.

If you are looking for a job, follow these people on Twitter. They just may give you an edge.

Over the last few months, T.A.P. (The Twitter Advice Project run by CAREEREALISM) has been dispensing career advice from various experts to job seekers on Twitter.

This week, the program hit two major milestones. First, it reached the 100 question mark (meaning 100 questions successfully answered by the career experts). Second, it  reached 5000 Twitter followers!

Best of all, it took only 2 months to reach both of these goals, surpassing the expectations of all involved.

So if you are a job hunter and you are looking for quality career advice, feel free to submit your question to twitter@careerealism.com and have it answered by a group of helpful experts.

And if you aren’t on Twitter, what are you waiting for?

Congratulations to T.A.P. for marking its first (of many) major milestones!