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Social Media: How to Interact (i.e. what to say) with Recruiters Part 4 of 4

October 21st, 2011

By Cleo Kirkland

Cleo continues his series on using Twitter to find a job. To read the other articles in the series click here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.

You’ve learned how to find them. You’ve learned how to attract them. And you’ve learned how to optimize your profile, so that they’ll want to contact you. All that’s left is to learn how to how to “speak” to them. Although Twitter is a rather informal social media platform, being too informal could turn a recruiter off; on the other hand, being too polite may make them think that you just don’t get it. The following are a few tips to follow when interacting with recruiters.

Tip # 1 “@Mention” them before Direct Messaging them

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Social Media: How to find Recruiters on Twitter, Part 2 of 4

October 18th, 2011

By Cleo Kirkland

In the last post, I talked about how to optimize your profile so that recruiters will hire you. But a nice looking profile by itself won’t get you a job—you’ve got to find the right recruiters.

Henceforth, this post examines how to do just that: where to search and the top tools for finding them. Hope this helps!

How to find Recruiters on Twitter.

Did you know that most Forbes 500 companies have a Twitter account? Did you also know that each of these companies has a dedicated staff member monitoring these accounts—some even have a whole team?

Tip # 1 Use Keywords to Search for Recent Tweets by Recruiters

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Social Media: How to Find a Job through Twitter: Part 1 of 4

October 16th, 2011

By Cleo Kirkland

Finding a job can be a rough. There are at least 45,000 job posts a day on Craigslist.com and a near endless amount similar sites to browse through. Networking events are usually awkward and ineffective, and, to top off your frustration, when you ask your friends where they work, they’ll usually respond with a simple “we’re not hiring right now.”

Finding a job can be rough.

But there’s hope. The following are a few tips on using one of social media’s newest channels—Twitter—to discover the hidden opportunities that were once thought of as lost. Through this four part series, you’ll learn how to optimize your profile for potential employers, how to attract employers to your profile, how to find the “right” recruiters, and how to interact with the employers once you’ve found them.

I sincerely hope this helps you in your search. If you have any other tips, please add them to the comments section. And, lastly, please share this post! It’s a great resource for all searchers, both young and old. » Read more: Social Media: How to Find a Job through Twitter: Part 1 of 4

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