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Twitter Job Search: Can Social Networking help with the Recession?
UK Gadget and Tech News, Reviews and Shopping —
... , meaning there are 10 job hunters for every single UK jobcentre vacancy advertised. Unforutunately, times are tough. twit This is where search specialist Workdigital today have stepped in. To help you get the edge in looking for a new job amongst all of the other millions (literally) out there, you can now Tweet a new job vacancy. Twitter JobSearch will allow you to search the social networking site for new vacancies and will also organise job information. The Guardian reports, “The pool of data of Twitter is really not valuable until it can be organised,” said the ...
Twitter job search services launched
Web User | News —
Web User: Twitter launches new homepage changes Two employment services have recently launched on Twitter in the UK as the micro-blogging site grows in popularity. The unemployment figure in the UK surpassed the two million mark earlier this month as the global financial crisis continues to worsen. However, the newly launched TwitterJobSearch.com says that it is advertising over "30,000 jobs covering every industry" in the UK. Since its launch last week, TwitterJobSearch.com has redirected followers to its listings 100,000 times. More than 1.3 billion messages are ...
Why Tweeting Has Become Organic's Main Job-Posting Strategy
Advertising Age - Homepage —
... be a fit. More than one-third of Organic employees are active on Twitter. The viral implications of this are huge. Now, when a job is tweeted by an Organic recruiter or hiring manager, employees have the opportunity to retweet it to friends. That capability nicely complements our employee-referral program, which has experienced an uptick. In fact, a third of Organic's hires are found through employee referrals. Helping them find us Twitter also helps talent find Organic. Using Twitter's latest job-search app , candidates can find Organic jobs easily. Twitter's searchability ...
TwitterJobSearch: A Good Resource If You’re Looking for Web Work [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network —
... workers are feeling the crunch. In the meantime, however, there are a number of good resources cropping up for web workers in need of work. Webware has been doing regular updates on not only who is laying off tech workers, but who’s hiring — in particular, who’s hiring people with web skills. In addition to the Webware list, ODesk, Elance and other resources for web workers who need jobs, it’s worth keeping TwitterJobSearch in mind.
TwitterJobSearch searches Twitter for posts on who is hiring. ...
TribeHQ Is The “Micro-Jobbing” Platform For All Things Job Related
TechCrunch —
... and connecting people in the same industries is definitely worth a try. But the website has a few hurdles to jump before it can become viral. With the massive popularity of Twitter, that has become the go-to platform for pretty much anything to do with micro-blogging. It’s going to take some significant marketing efforts to convert job seekers and employers to add a new platform. This is why so many startups are focused on creating applications based off of Twitter’s API. TwitterJobSearch is a good example of this. TwitterJobSearch uses semantic search to figure ...
TwitterJobSearch: Find a Job on Twitter
Mashable! —
... Like other job boards, TwitterJobSearch lets you either browse for jobs in categories – like accounting, sales, or IT – or simply search the company’s index. The quality of the results varies a bit based on what you’re looking for. For example, a search for “financial account” yields nothing but job opportunities, while searching for “blogger” includes some non-job related tweets, but is still generally pretty good. ...
Is Twitter the New CareerBuilder?
Fast Company - Technology —
... , the Twitter Yellow Pages, categorizes Twitter users and makes them searchable by location, industry, position or topic. In May, a London-based search engine tech company started TwitterJobSearch.com, an open-source search engine for jobs posted on Twitter ( ...
Over 10 Ways to Find Paying Work in the Open Source Arena
OStatic blogs —
... TwitterJobSearch has emerged as a great way to find all kinds of jobs, including jobs in open source. For example, type in "PHP San Francisco," and look how many jobs come back, from full-time positions to work-at-home part-time opportunities. This site has really grown with the popularity of Twitter. ...
Over 10 Ways to Find Paying Work in the Open Source Arena [OStatic]
GigaOM Network —
... TwitterJobSearch has emerged as a great way to find all kinds of jobs, including jobs in open source. For example, type in "PHP San Francisco," and look how many jobs come back, from full-time positions to work-at-home part-time opportunities. This site has really grown with the popularity of Twitter. ...
Open Source Skills As a Job Seeker's Key Differentiator [OStatic]
GigaOM Network —
... posts on how open source skills can arm a college graduate looking for tech work, or a recently laid off worker, with powerful calling cards for finding employment. From working for commercial open source companies to working on open source-focused divisions at big companies such as Yahoo!, skills with tools such as PHP, Hadoop, and open source content management system platforms can really differentiate a tech job seeker from the pack.
TwitterJobSearch, oDesk, Elance and many other sites are good places to look for ...
Open Source Skills As a Job Seeker's Key Differentiator
OStatic blogs —
We've done several posts on how open source skills can arm a college graduate looking for tech work, or a recently laid off worker, with powerful calling cards for finding employment. From working for commercial open source companies to working on open source-focused divisions at big companies such as Yahoo!, skills with tools such as PHP, Hadoop, and open source content management system platforms can really differentiate a tech job seeker from the pack.
TwitterJobSearch, oDesk, Elance and many other sites are good places to look for ...
Using Social Media for Attracting New Talent
Search Engine Journal —
(The second post from SEJ collaborative Social Media Series for Business Operations)
Incorporating a social media strategy into your overall online marketing/business strategy has become essential: but finding that balance where your social media activities are the wings beneath your business success, yet aren’t floating you up out into the stratosphere is difficult.
An area where you may well find that time spent on social media pays off handsomely is finding new talent for your business.
For me, TweetPhoto owner Rodney Rumford’s advice on how to find your next hot ...
Real-Time Jobs gives job-seekers an edge to get job postings before they appear elsewhere on the web
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis —
The company behind the real-time job search engine, TwitterJobSearch, is using the same technology (QuickPitch) for a new iPhone app called Real-Time Jobs. Using the application, job-seekers can attach an online CV, social media profile, and/or a video CV to job offers that have been ...
12 Offbeat Resources for Landing a Tech Job [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... TwitterJobSearch searches Twitter for posts on who is hiring. The posted jobs range from full-time to part-time work-at-home to one-off hired gun positions. Many of the positions listed are tech jobs, and the number of posts is at critical mass, with Twitter being the social phenomenon that it is. More than 410,000 new jobs were posted to TwitterJobSearch in the last 30 days. Use this syntax to, say, find web development jobs in San Francisco: “web developer San Francisco.” ...
Five Ways Startups Are Tapping Into LinkedIn’s API
TechCrunch —
... recently launched technology, cloud-based VoIP telephony service Ribbit Mobile will pull in the LinkedIn contact info and status updates from anyone who calls you on Ribbit. It will also pull in info from Facebook, Flickr, Twitter and other social media sites. The idea is to give a social context to all of your contacts, which is definitely useful information for both professional and personal contacts.
JobDASH
From the developers of TwitterJobSearch, comes JobDASH, which is an Adobe Air-powered Twitter and LinkedIn ...
