Every week I scan Twitter for job hunting Tweets. Each time I do, I find people jeopardizing both their current job and their job hunt with their social posts.
Let this be a lesson to you. If I can find your musings online, a recruiter can too. I hope you can learn what not to do from some of these examples.
As always, in order to provide (at least a little) anonymity, I have declined from posting the users name or linking to their Twitter account. No sense compounding the problems for these job hunters!
Beware! There is some off-color language in some of these tweets. Consider yourself warned!
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Nothing like a strong, confident candidate…
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You’re tweakinnn’ what?
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Don’t worry, he’s probably sick of you too.
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Not something I would admit in a public forum.
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Greed is good…just not in the job hunt.
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Apparently, it’s at least one more than you’ve currently written…
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I would suggest a different answer to the “why are you leaving” question.
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Desperation never works in an interview…
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Glad to hear it! I hope that the employer doesn’t see this…
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Actually, I think that term automatically disqualifies you…
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Don’t let this happen to you! Beware of what you post on Twitter, Facebook or any other social networking site. It may come back to haunt you!