This article is going to assume you already use twitter and have some followers. So, you can post a tweet in 140 characters saying what type of position you are looking for and hope that the right person is listening, but there are other things you can do and that’s

Today’s Tip:

Use twitter search to find out what companies are looking for your skills.

There are so many ways to use twitter search, I will just give a few today and if you have others to add, I would love to hear from you here.

Go to twitter search and do a keyword search for your skills. Let’s say you are a JD Edwards expert, you can search for that or if that brings too many results, you can try narrowing it by searching “Looking for JD Edwards” or other modifiers. You can set up an RSS feed right from the search page. Twitter search can be found at http://search.twitter.com/ .

You could also set up alerts at one of the many companies that allow you to receive emails on your twitter search results. http://tweetbeep.com/ is one such company that does this. A good place to find many twitter applications is at http://twitdom.com/ .

Many companies and recruiters are tweeting jobs, you could search for the new hash tag #followhr and find recruiters and human resources experts to follow.

So, if you have used twitter in your job search, I would love to hear from you. If you have a great resource that uses twitter to post employment opportunities, please list them here.

Tags: Job Hunting tips, job seekers, twitter

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