Short status updates or messages on twitter which we call tweet are gaining much popularity on the net than ever before. People are using it to stay in touch with their friends, celebrities, or even if they want to be in touch with the latest updates on a website. It has also proven to be a very successful tool for driving traffic to your business and building a fan page. Today, we are going to cover yet another exciting aspect of twitter which many people have been utilizing already for their benefit, and that is job hunting through twitter. The trends for hiring quality human resource have been changing quite rapidly in the past few years. Now throwing a CV with fancy words on it in multiple organizations might not be very helpful for you to score a job. You need to do more than this to catch your dream job. While doing the job hunting on various online job portals, browsing through networks on LinkedIn and posting CVs online, you might be missing out on one of the other very important resources that might help you out with your quest. Try Twitter, and here’s how exactly you need to do it.

Follow all Job Portals and Job Search Experts

Following some great job experts could give you some good insights of the market along with useful tips and information. You can get a good list of people to follow about your job search from Twellow’s directory for Employment > Career > Job. The results you would experience after following such people could be really helpful for you in your job hunt.

Search for Posted Positions

Companies are tweeting about the new vacancies and opening every now and then, you just need to hunt them all. Search for keywords at search.twitter.com like #jobs #openings or keywords related with your area of expertise and you might get lucky. New positions from various companies are floating on twitter timeline most of the time and it might prove to be very useful for you.

Follow Big Names from the Industry

Those who are already in industry know a lot more about it than those who haven’t joined it yet. As it’s not easy to remain in touch with them and ask for the latest updates, the better option is to stick with their blog or twitter account and keep frequent check on what they have got to say. All of them might not be very active online, but even few good people with info would do. You can search for them at twitter search or at the Twellow’s directory.

Engage With the Tweeples

As they say that the first step towards learning is to ‘listen, listen and listen’, the thing which you have to do after this is to speak and let other people know that you are an educated person out there in the World and have enough knowledge to qualify for a job. You need to engage in healthy discussion related with market, jobs, companies etc. This would help you to build a stronger network with others and making a better PR. The more you interact with the people, better your reputation would be which you could cash from industry. Twitter could prove to be a great way to learn and interact with people and do a personal branding to attract some good offers. You can also use other social media tools and networks in this regard but as this article is intended for the use of twitter only, we would discuss about the other social networks later. You can subscribe to our blog by either joining its facebook page or following the twitter profile. Stay tuned as we bring you more updates regarding the job hunting and searching.

Want your business to shine in the market place? Tweet about it! Twitter is among the leading social networking sites today, it has a user data base of above 75 million, and more are being added daily. Twitter is huge and people worldwide are making use of this tremendous audience accessible to them.

Twitter gives you a 140 word limit to express your company’s or your own thoughts. 140 might seem like a small number but people who are smart will and are using it wisely for their brand promotion.

To know more about the impact twitter has made in the work industry in the last three years let’s look at some of the stats of twitter from the US. Twitter is currently used by 42% users to know and search about products, 41% use is to give opinions and a whopping 19% seek customer support via twitter. Twitter is not just used by pc or laptop junkies, according to a recent survey in US 63% of the users connect through their mobile devices. Fascinated by the numbers you see? Excited to know more on how you can use this growing technology to your advantage? Allow me to give you a few pointers on how you can get started and fully harness the power of twitter

Getting Started

If you are new on twitter and don’t have an account yet then searching is your best option. Search for companies like you, your competitors who are already out there. The more you search the better you’ll get at knowing what the market is and what you need to start doing for your company to make it to the top.

While making an account, make sure you post a picture. A profile page, be it personal or corporative is much more interactive if you just post a picture of yourself or your company’s logo. Remember that people out there want to see your picture.

You, Your Company & Others

If your basic interest in twitter is the promotion of your company then of course that is what you will need to do. But remember to bring in the human touch in it so your customers can know that they are interacting with a human and not a machine. You need to talk about your company as well as other things that are going around you.

Make sure to tweet about the things that are useful and informative, give links to blog posts so your users can read more and consequently get to know more about you and your company. The more you interact the more it shows on your company’s profit!

Replying

Your clients on twitter know you have a company to lead and that you don’t always have time to reply to all tweets. So take a break, reply to the ones you can, and if you can’t then don’t feel guilty about it. When you do reply, ensure that you are covering most of the question asked by most of your users. That way you can satisfy more than one person.

Re-twitting is another great option which is at your disposal to make use of. Like something you see on someone other than your tweet? Re-twitting helps you pick that tweet up and post it on your own profile so that your own users can read and comment on it.

We have covered some of the things that you can do while showcasing your company on twitter, now let’s look at some of the services and applications that twitter offers so that you can make most of the social scene at twitter.

Twitter feed

This service is probably the most useful. It helps you to fetch content from your blog or other sites related to your company and show those links on your tweet. It will help your customers stay up to date with you and your company.

Twitter PollDaddy

Your twitting needs to be interactive, and for these interactions you need to ask question and get the opinions of your existing customers as well as the people who aren’t your customers-yet! That’s exactly what Poll Daddy will help you achieve, through this service you can ask a number of questions and give a few options which your customers can choose from. Bring your customers in and make them a part of your business by asking them what they think of your brand and what they think should be done in order to improve it.

Tweet Scan

Tweet scan can help make your life so much easier. Through tweet scan you can search for your product. News that concerns your product and news featuring products like yours. It can help you track your customers as well as your competitors’ so you can make them your customers in the long run. The tweet scan is a great tool if it is put to proper use.

Twitter Response

Have a new office opening but don’t have the time to tell your customers? Twitter Response will help you out. Through twitter Response you can schedule when your tweet is to go online. You can write the tweet whenever and wherever you want and set a time on when it will be shown to your customers. Great isn’t it? It looks like twitter has thought of a solution to all our problems.

Twitter Reply

Your customers at twitter expect you to be available to them when they have a problem. They might have a range of quires and you need to make certain you are there to help them out. Twitter Reply is a service which will send you an email when any problem is posted on twitter concerning your company.

Twitter is a massive platform where you can experiment and explore the different possibilities available for your corporation’s success. Make an account and get started and you’ll soon find out that the 140 words have a greater power than given credit for.