5 Ways To Use Twitter In Your Job Search

5 Ways to Use Twitter in Your Job Search (guest blogger Marci Reynolds) There are many ways in which utilizing Twitter can help job seekers with their job search technique and on-line branding. I will cowl 5 in today’s blog publish. It’s Not Just A LinkedIn World I lately surveyed job seekers in the Massachusetts area about their on-line presence and found that while most job seekers had set up a LinkedIn profile, very few have been utilizing Twitter. As you in all probability know, Twitter is likely one of the most popular, social networking websites on the web and more than 20 million individuals visit Twitter each month. These guests embody hiring managers, human sources staffers and recruiters that work for the businesses that you want to work for. So, I suggest that each Job Seeker uses Twitter. Here are some specifics.. 1) Using Twitter can expand and reinforce your on-line brand By writing a compelling, keyword rich profile AND publishing prime quality, targeted Tweets you will promote and demonstrate your expertise, abilities, data… and differentiate your self from the competition. (FYI- Here’s more info on a Tweet Content Strategy on your job search.) 2) Your profile and your tweets may help with seo Similar to how Google indexes your LinkedIn profile and Blogs, Google additionally indexes your Twitter profile and your Tweets. If someone searches for you via Google or different search engines like google and yahoo, your Twitter exercise might be displayed in search outcomes. This helps recruiters and hiring managers find out extra about you. 3) You can find Real Time job postings on Twitter Twitter now serves as a mini job board and recruiters and hiring managers throughout the globe are posting jobs there. (Similar to postings on Monster, Careerbuilder or Dice.) For example, should you go to the Twitter search box and kind in VP Sales Boston, you will discover Tweets particular to VP Sales jobs in Boston. You can even discover and follow recru iters in your geographic area and business, to routinely get their Tweets- actual time. 4) You can discover nice job search recommendation on Twitter There are tons of of Career Experts who continually present advice and hyperlinks to job search resources on Twitter. The quickest approach to discover these experts is to use the Twitter Search operate and enter the hashtag #jobsearch, #career or #jobseeker. You will see page after web page of posts from career gurus that you may discover very useful… and customers that you could be want to observe on a regular basis. (You could wish to learn “The high one hundred job search hashtags record“, compiled by Career Rocketeer.) Here are a few of J2B’s favorites: @alisondoyle, @megguiseppi, @jobhuntorg and, after all, @kevinkermes! 5) You can immediately join with corporations and people that you could be need to work for, through your Twitter follower technique If you finally get an interview with one of the companies that you are following, you may be rather more prepared for the discussions. And.. they could begin following you and maybe it will be the start of a web-based relationship- that could lead to extra. Want to be taught extra? Marci is not only this week’s visitor blogger, but my Subject Matter Expert (SME) Webinar for the Career Mastermind Group on January 19th. Her topic â€" “Twitter and Your Job Search: The Secrets to Harnessing this Tool for Maximum Success”Read more about how you can be a part of this name and the Mastermind Group at no cost. Marci Reynolds is the CEO of J2B Marketing, a “Job Seeker 2 Business”™ Internet Marketing & Online Copywriting Services Firm based mostly in Boston, MA. She is also the creator of the brand new e book, “How To Use Twitter For Your Job Search” and the “social media for job search” professional blogger on the award successful web site Job-Hunt.org. Previously, Marci was the VP, North America Sales Operations at Monster.com, the leading on-line careers web site. Learn more at , on Twitter @j2bmarketing.