Twitter, An Emerging And Effective Tool For Job Seekers

By James Brown | Oct 22, 2013 10:42 PM EDT

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Nowadays, job seekers need to keep updated on every tool available that emerges with great ease with Internet and Social Media help if they want to compete at the same level as tech savvy job hunters.

In the past, one used to sign up in LinkedIn and wait until some job explicit offers and people connections started to do the job.

Now, Twitter is starting to venture into the waters of the job recruitment using own job seekers bio, profile image and appropriate hashtags to get the job they really dream of.

"Earlier this year, Twitter and NPR hosted a live chat about using Twitter in a job search," reported Mashable, a tech news website. "It is a matter of networking with colleagues and influencers in your field."

Actually, "Twesume" is a new concept and way of resume that is emerging in Twitter that uses only 132 characters in order to make some noise and make people know who you are and what are you proficient in at the same time, new platforms collect this type of tweets using hashtags in them.

According to the Mashable, these are some sites that are becoming really popular on Twitter recruitment:

-TwitJobSearch

-TweetMyJobs

-Twellow

-MobJob

Further, here is a list of some Twitter accounts to follow that are posting job opportunities continuously:

@JobHuntOrg

@SocialMediaJob

@LinkedIn_Jobs

@CraigslistJobs

@Ed2010News

And last but not least, there are jobseekers that have their dream company in mind already, Mashable posted some own company jobs Twitter account:

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