Twitter tips for job searchers - Sterling Career Concepts

Twitter tips for job searchers Twitter tips for job searchers A big shout out to Susan Whitcombof the Career Coach Academyfor the following lessonslearned onTwitter: Susan shares: Ill admit that Im not a Twitter expert, but I have learned a great deal over the past few months as Ive jumped into the twitterverse with reckless abandon. Im sharing my insights (and hard knocks) in hopes youll: 1) learn a little something new; 2) save yourself some time on the learning curve; or 3) feel good that you already knew something I just recently discovered! Confused about what it is and where to start? Check out the video on Twitters help page: http://help.twitter.com/portal Frustrated with no followers? Start following others. This will grow your followers. Dont ask me how. It just works! How do I find people to follow? Heres a great tip forjob searchers. Go to http://search.twitter.com/search click on Advanced Search to the right of the blank text box. In the all of these words box type recruiter, healthcare (without the quotations; of course, substitute whatever industry youre looking for a job in for the word healthcare). Dozens of options will surface. Click on a name, and then click Follow. Since its not good etiquette to friend recruiters on Facebook, this gives job seekers a method to follow recruiters without stalking. Vary your posts. As helpful as information is, dont always point your followers to yet another website or cool article. People dont have time to read everything. Social media has an air of omniscience to it and, as tempting as it may seem, trying to follow everything will only send you into overload. (Do I hear heads nodding?!) Sometimes a thought-filled question or inspirational quote will be a welcome alternative to the info overload. Dont tweet from your phone without first setting it up: I learned this one the hard way. I busily tweeted during the Career Management Alliance conference in San Antonio via my cell phone and, only later, learned that none of the tweets appeared under the #careers09 hashtag set up for the conference. Bummer. (Go to Settings, then Devices, to turn on your mobile phone.) Deb Dib (follow her at http://twitter.com/CEOCoach) was kind enough to retweet my posts! Whats a hashtag? Read on. Use and/or search hashtags: Hashtags include a # sign followed by a short word, phrase, or abbreviation. For example, the Career Management Alliance conference was tweeted under #careers09. If you want to see all the thoughts flying during the sessions, search for #careers09on Twitter. You can also search for #mcm short for Many Career Minds put together by Chandlee Bryan (follow her at http://twitter.com/chandlee) See you on Twitter! Follow Susans meanderings at www.twitter.com/susanwhitcomband my own at www.twitter.com/laurieberenson.