3. Benefits of Twitter for
Job Search
• Six degrees of separation
• Visibility to hiring companies
• Access to hidden jobs
• Networking potential
• Company research and access
23. • Tweet - When you post or write your 140
characters on twitter and hit send
• Handle – your twitter name - @susanbaier
• Follow – the act of adding someone to your list of
people you are following
• Replies – when someone writes a tweet directly
at your handle
• Retweet – republishing someone else’s tweet
• DM – a message directly sent to another user
• Hashtag (#) – mark keywords or topics
24.
25. Tweet
• What you are doing/thinking
• What people WANT to read
• Share skills
• Engaging, professional, intelligent
• 2 retweets/responses to every 1 tweet
• Ask questions
• Links to websites
26. 15 minutes every day
• TweetMyJobs
• Network (DM, @, RT)
• Make friends
• Search!
• Share interesting links
• Build your brand
27. Online Networking
• Real people!
• Find opportunities to connect IRL
• Be engaged, but don’t go crazy
• Manage direct messages
• Watch others pros in your line of work
