Sky News has an interesting report about people using Twitter for jobhunting.
The link to Twitjobs is wrong though. You can find out about them at www.twitjobs.co.uk. They actually have a number of Twitter profiles targeting different broad occupational sectors. You can check out twitjobs here where you'll find around 5,000 people are following vacancy details being advertised on Twitter in the UK.
But there are also:
TwitJobsMedia TwitJobs_Sales twitjobsGRAD twitjobsCreativ and twitjobsFashion
The article also talks about the US site CLJOBS on Twitter, which checks and then tweets vacancies advertised on Craigslist every 15 minutes. Few people would have the patience to trawl Craigslist or similar classifed sites every few minutes in case of a new posting. This service takes that hassle away, and alerts you via Twitter of new jobs. Carefully composed twitter searches can be used to deliver you customised job notices via RSS feed to your chosen reader!
Both these sites are interesting. There's an urgency about jobhunting using Twitter, and CLJOBS particularly emphasizes the importance of being FIRST (or shall we say in the first few) across the recruiter's desk. I suppose it's quite appropriate to say in this case that the early bird catches the worm!
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