Finding a Job Series – Social Media

Twitter. Twitter is a great social network for meeting people outside of your bubble. By posting in 150 characters or less, virtually anybody in the world can look further into your profile, at your past tweets, or of links of things you posted. This is a wonderful tool for networking. One advantage of Twitter is its immediacy. From any electronic device, you can get in touch with people who share the same interest as you without encroaching into their personal space. By communicating in this fashion, it makes networking a very voluntary process that connects people who are seeking the same thing. To get in touch with more people on Twitter, you need to follow them, but once you do that, you can examine their profile and their past messages. This helps if a company posts job offers, as the message will be displayed so long as they need to. Be sure to make your Twitter handle your name if you want your information to show up on searches. Also, when connecting to people, be polite and to the point; companies may receive hundreds, if not thousands, of messages they need to sift through, and the last thing they need are lengthy block paragraphs. Twitter is also good for searching. Enter what kind of position you are looking for into the search bar and you will be surprised at how many are available out there.