Using Twitter to quickly find your next job?
It’s a good idea- the USA has the most Twitter users of any country on Earth in 2014, according to a report that appeared in Forbes this past May. And many, many of them are recruiters and companies looking to hire.
Here are a few essential tools that will accelerate your job search as mentioned in The Ultimate Twitter Job Search Guide.
Twitter search was once so limited, I used to recommend you use other sites to search Twitter.
Not anymore.
With Advanced Search, you can now search:
- Older tweets of job listings that are recent enough to apply for but have since been buried
- Tweets from specific accounts, great if you’re targeting specific companies (as you should)
- Tweeted job openings in your area (if you have “Tweet Location” enabled)
2) Tweriod
In their own words: “Tweriod gives you the best times to tweet. We analyse both your tweets and your followers’ tweets. So you can start tweeting when it makes most sense to reach others.”
Tweriod will let you be online when the people you want to impress are also online, so you can really take advantage of Twitter’s real-time aspects to build relationships with recruiters, company representatives, industry honchos and anyone else who can help get you hired, such as by helping them out when they ask for it.
Another way to make your mark on the network is by sharing great resources that those people will appreciate.
But what if the timing of that daily sweet spot isn’t convenient for you?
Or maybe you have diverse groups of followers who come online at different times of the day?
That’s when you’ll need-
3) SocialOomph
SocialOomph is a general social media manager, but their free plan has a very handy feature for Twitter users: scheduled tweets.
Scheduled tweets are how you can share your best reputation and personal brand-building links, photos and videos even when you’re actually unavailable.
They also let you take advantage of the marketer’s trick tactic to recycle or repost tweets, especially if you see that they were retweeted and popular the first time you posted them, which might have been earlier in the day, week or month.
A little automation is good, but most of the time, you’ll want to be live on Twitter like almost everyone else usually is.
And a great time to be live is for Twitter Chats.
4) TweetChat
A Twitter Chat is when a group of people, at a specific time, simultaneously ‘follow’ a #hashtag, which is basically the name and topic for the chat. In practice, this means watching an auto-updating Twitter search results page for the chosen hashtag.
My favorite ways that TweetChat makes chatting easier is by:
- automatically appending the hashtag to each of your chat-specific tweets (without which, your tweet won’t be seen by anyone in the chat)
- letting you hide spammers who are trying to hijack the chat
- giving you the option to ‘pause’ the chat stream (handy when the chat is very active and you’re typing a reply to someone)
They also have a calendar of upcoming chats so you can find relevant discussions for your industry or profession. You might also want chats about job search in general, if you have a question for experts or just want to get feedback.
