CASH tips: HOW-TO use Twitter to find a job

How To: Market Yourself on Twitter

A Breath of Fresh Air

It gets pretty tiring hearing about the depressed, jobless market that all of us college students are soon to be a part of, eh? Here, here! Fret no more- good news is on the way!

According to a CNN report, the number of unemployment claims made this week were the lowest since last January. Cool, right? Simply put, this means more job opportunities for all of us soon to be graduates. It gets pretty discouraging hearing about all of the downfalls of the current market, but we could have something going for us here. So strap on those career searchin’ boots, get inspired again, and check out the article for more details!

& now, every job that gets posted on myspartancareer also gets posted to their twitter account: follow myspartancareer & be in the loop on all job postings

HOW TO: Use Twitter in your Job Search

OK, what is the deal with Twitter?

Who would even follow me? I don’t need to update everyone on my every move! Sound familiar? I hear it all the time.  But here’s the thing – don’t look at twitter as a way to give out your personal information (unless you want to), instead think of it as a way of getting information from others.  One thing is for sure, Twitter is blowing up…at a rate of 1,382% to be exact (as of March).  One thing is for sure, it doesn’t seam to be going anywhere anytime soon.  So it’s time to stop wondering, and start utilizing twitter for everything it can do for you.  And yes – there’s lots it can do.

Don’t know where to start? Well you’re in luck – mashable (a great resource for online social media) has just released a Twitter Guide Book for those who are new to Twitter.

The best part about Twitter? The external sites that people have developed to utilize the information flowing through tweets…even for your jobs search: www.TwitterJobSearch.com a job search engine for twitter.

There are tons of twitter’s you can follow that strictly post job postings. How to find them?  Once you make your twitter account click “find people” search “[city] jobs” [replace city with the city of your choice] and see what job twitterers are out there.  For example, want to live in Chicago? I just searched Chicago jobs & these are just the first 5 that came up: chicagowebjobs, jobschicago,  jobchicago, Chicagocareers, GreenJobChicago all posting job openings.  Think about it – instead of you searching everywhere for jobs, all you have to click is “follow” and a constant flow of job postings will come to you!

Leave it up to our generation to come up with the most lazy way possible to have information come directly to us! But hey, who’s complaining?

& for those of you who still want to hate on twitter…enjoy….

How To Find A Job on Twitter – Mashable

With college grads facing more and more trouble finding jobs today, it only seems natural that students will have to become more creative in their job search, and these days the most innovative solutions seem to coming online. Sarah Evans, on Mashable, recently highlighted how you can potentially use Twitter to help find a job. Networking these days is a whole new ball game and Twitter is an important new pitch you should add to your repertoire. Swing by Mashable to find out some new strategies for using everyone’s favorite “lifecasting” tool to find you that sweet  new job you’ve been looking for.

HOW TO: Find a Job on Twitter – Mashable

Don’t forget about other great social networking tools such as Facebook, LinkedIn and blogs that can also help with your job search.