Birds of a feather really do flock together.  This Marketing Profs Daily Fix Guest Post drives this message home.  Kevin Smith, a software developer for Gnoso, Inc. in Greenville, SC, found comfort in a flock of Ruby programming language birds on Twitter.  After getting more involved in the Ruby community, he sent his resume to Gnoso, a company where a fellow Twitter follower Alan was employed.  After weeks of not hearing anything Kevin reached out to Alan to find that his resume had not gone through. Alan quickly became Kevin’s biggest cheerleader considering they had similar interests and had grown to be close friends on Twitter.  Alan encouraged Kevin to resend his resume, and within months Kevin was hired by Gnoso. This is what the hiring manager had to say, “While [Twitter] doesn’t remove the need for interviews, it makes the interview process more like hiring a friend than hiring a stranger.” 
 
Tip: As Kevin learned “Twitter is a great place to meet people that share your interests,” so the next time you’re on Twitter, look at the employers of your followers. You could be staring at your future employer.   

Keisha Mabry, Feb. 12, 2010

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Attributing their interest in the tech-savvy audience and free services, company recruiters find Twitter very appealing. ClickZ.com’s recent article at http://www.clickz.com/3636255 is about the latest search engine application for job seekers highlight how a few simple steps can help connect recruiters with potential candidates — quickly.  The search engine works like most – the more detail you provide, the narrower the search. Once downloaded, you enter the type of job you want and if you aren’t open to relocating, the geographical area, i.e. city, state, etc. The advanced search option allows you to search for any or all words, specific titles, and even ignore jobs with particular words, i.e. sales. The application scours Twitter and by marking tweets that are jobs and filtering out the rest, it gives job seekers a leg up in their looking.

Melody K. Smith, Feb. 8, 2010

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For developers who specialize in Microsoft SharePoint, job loss and the struggling economy can be tough due to the niche market SharePoint holds. The SharePoint Developer Network lists jobs nationwide on their site http://jobs.sharepointdeveloper.org/a/jbb/find-jobs, and you can filter results. All jobs posted on the site can be sent directly to your Twitter client by following @SPDEVNET on Twitter. The service started in December and plans to make the currently basic tweets into a more “customizable subscription service” with personal filters based on category or geographic location http://johnholliday.net/post/2009/12/20/SharePoint-Job-Tweets-Now-Available-SPDEVNET.aspx. SPDEVNET’s job board is “always up to date,” meaning the latest tweets from @SPDEVNET will likely be hot leads. Since using social media has become a daily routine for most of us, utilizing it for the job hunt is like a great idea.

Sam Hartman, Feb. 3, 2010

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