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Career & Work Life Matters, ISSN 2150-6299, Vol 3, no. 13

Twitter Tools for Job Search Part 3

This is Part 3 of a series of articles on how you can use twitter to speed up your job search.
This issue focuses on Tweetmyjobs, a tool specifically designed to connect employers and job seekers.

What is Tweetmyjobs?

Tweetmyjobs is a job posting service that is similar to the job boards you’re already familiar with, such as Monster or Career Builder.

It is free for job seekers. Benefits to employers include lower costs and quick responses from potential candidates.

How can Job Seekers use Tweetmyjobs?

Your approach will depend on your goals.

Are you actively searching?

Do you want to find out which companies are hiring in your area?

Are you relocating to a new area, and researching the job market there.

See below for 2 of the options available for job seekers.

1. Get notified about open positions

Create a free account with your name, email, and a password that you create.
To get automatic alerts select your preferred method of communication (email; mobile phone; twitter; or all 3 if you so choose). Narrow your search by selecting your industry from the drop down menu, and by choosing a specific geographical area.

2. Quick Subscribe to a Channel

Tweetmyjobs is organized into thousands of custom channels.
Enter your job type and location to get recommended channels to follow on twitter.
See the project manager search example below.

“project manager”
“Seattle, WA 98104 US”

As you’ll see from this example, it is easy to narrow your search, for example by zip codes.

This search produced results for project management positions in IT, Business, and Engineering and more, each in a different channel.

Choose which channels you want to follow. If you are interested in project manger positions in the engineering field, you would follow the channel listed as @tm_SEA_eng

Once subscribed, you will continue to receive tweets from your selected channel/s at your twitter account.

This is useful if you are in active search. You need to check your account frequently, but you can do it on your schedule without having to continually manage incoming emails or text messages.

This tools may also help if you are considering changing to a different field and want to research open positions in a new industry or geographical area.

Did you Get the Previous Issues in This Series?

If you missed the previous issues in this series of Twitter tools for Job Seekers, you can find them here.

Part 2: How to Use Hashtags

Part 1: Can Twitter Speed up Your Job Search

(includes a free downloadable simple planning tool)

You’ll find me on Twitter @jenniferbradle

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Career & Work Life Matters

ISSN 2150-6299

Vol 1, no. 1.

2009, June 25

Hello. My name is Jennifer Bradley.

Jennifer Bradley

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Understanding Changes in the World of Work

Every week I meet clients who are dealing with profound and sometimes sudden changes in their lives resulting from changes in their employment.

Job loss is not new. But the current recession brings it closer to more people. Unemployment is in the headlines. More individuals and their families are dealing with career and life transitions. Even if you are not, you probably know someone who is.

A career today no longer means the same thing as it did 50 years ago, or even 10 years ago. Did you know that the word career is originally derived from medieval Latin and French words for road and wagon?

Richard Knowdell, (internationally recognized author and founder of the Career Planning and Adult Development Network) uses the transport metaphor to describe how the world of work has changed over time. He compares changes in careers to trains, buses, and all-terrain vehicles.

As he explains, managing your career was once like train travel. Now it’s like driving an all-terrain vehicle.

1. Travel by Train: Follow a Pre-Designed Path

Follow the Rail

When you travel by train, you choose your destination, buy your ticket, get on the train.

When you chose your career, did you expect to have a path to follow? Traditionally, career success meant working your way up in the organization. But a predictable career path is no longer a reality.

2. Travel by Bus: Make Transfers Using the Same Vehicle

Transfer

Managing careers became more like riding a bus. Transfers were
possible and even necessary as technology developed and jobs changed.

But you could probably expect to continue in a similar line of work.

3. Use an All-Terrain Vehicle: You Drive and Create Your Own Path

Create Your Path as You Go

Today’s world of work is very different. Jobs and opportunities change rapidly. There is no definite career path to follow. This results in new demands to adapt quickly and more frequently. To be successful you need a different kind of vehicle. An all-terrain vehicle, that enables you to move forward even when there is no clearly defined path.

Who’s Driving? Which Vehicle are you Using?

Do you feel as if you have the right vehicle to move ahead?

Dealing with the uncertainty of career transitions can be very stressful. This stress can make it difficult to focus.

To be successful, you need to explore new directions, but at the same time move forward.

If it’s a while since you’ve had a career change, taking the driver’s seat in an all-terrain vehicle may be daunting. But being the driver doesn’t mean that you can’t get help and support.

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