We have had a sacking being announced via Twitter, now job ads.
Gian is looking for an accessibility expert for a bit of work so she advertised it via her circle of friends on Twitter:-
“Gian: anyone in Melbourne available for two weeks accessibility work?”
Twitter is just another network of contacts you can use to both find candidates and a job. Next step applying for a job via Twitter
Popularity: 16% [?]
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1 systematic viewpoints » Blog-centric recruiting, or what? // Jan 30, 2007 at 4:17 am
[...] Chuck Allen over at HR-XML asks if this is going to be “The year of blog-centric recruiting“, noting Guy Kawasaki’s mention of SimplyHired’s announcing a service called “Job-a-matic. Michael Specht has been diving deeply into Twitter, and he suggests that it may be a vehicle to aid job seekers. [...]
2 Twitter is it evil or can it be used for good at Michael Specht - discussions on HR and technology // Mar 16, 2007 at 2:49 pm
[...] Twitter is it evil or can it be used for good (Warning I am not sure this post is fully thought out, yet) For the folks at Twitter, SXSW must have felt like a debutante ball with all of the fuss being made over their little baby. I have been a user of Twitter since November, actually I started on the same day as Scoble, well before the current craze that seems to have hit the world, look at the Technorati chart for the last 30 days:- Get your own chart! Or at a recent analysis in the growth of Twitter messages, 23 in March 2006 to over 8.2 mil as of today, mostly since late November. This thing is popular! Like many initially I wondered what it was all about. But that was before I had friends, signed up my phone and IM client. It was all a bit of a yawn, social networking is no fun by yourself. Slowly I found a couple of friends, started getting SMS updates and things started to improve. I have written a few blog posts trying to speculate what Twitter could be used for. But I am still not 100% sure what Twitter is all about, nor if it can be used for good. Now it seems now that every man, woman, child and the occasional cat have an opinion about Twitter both good and bad. Ross Mayfield says it has tipped the tuna with the explosive growth from SXSW but still no one has a definitive answer on how we can use Twitter. However I fear that with the “friends-race” executed by Chris Pirillo and Robert Scoble in the last few weeks will is causing the service to be dismissed by “outsiders” as just yet another geek toy. (Note: yes I follow both of them but before the “friends-race” began as sometime they Twitter some really interesting stuff.) No one can keep track of so many “friends” and not be driven crazy with the drain on their attention. Let’s not even start to talk about them blowing Dunbar’s number out the window when it comes to usage able social networks. So back to my first question, can Twitter be used for good? Like blogging it can be used for many different things. Looking at some comments on Robert’s post where his wife has banned him from talking about Twitter Jim Johnson lists a few “uses”, which are promptly shot down, but do raise some practical applications. Let’s now look at uses for Twitter, starting with Jim’s, and yes some are a stretch:- [...]
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