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Surprise! If you play it smart, you can take advantage of the millions of Twitter account-holders to get a new job or career. Published reports show in 2022, Twitter boasted of 368 world-wide users, and in 2024 95.4 million in the U.S.
Sure, it’s a daunting task, but the potential for success is terrific.
You can tweet to link up with the right people, as you would with LinkedIn. But that’s not to say that you shouldn’t use LinkedIn and other social media. You have to make an investment in your time and energy – some research and careful thought.
For the sake of explanation, let’s consider a job search in “advertising,” but you can apply the following principles to your situation. These strategies will work in most professions. Coordinate your footwork with a blog, but more on that later.
Here’s how to tweet your way to a new job in seven ways:
1. Social analytics tools
Social analytic tools can give you insights to help develop information to benefit your career. There are available tools for free and for paid subscriptions. They provide data on billions of tweets and other social posts.
Also, they will help to obtain multi-year posts as well as real-time tweet activity.
You can take productive action in your job search – examining hashtags, images, links, subjects, terms, trends and videos.
Access to trends is especially beneficial, especially because the information is current and topical. You can index geographic locales, influence, language and social sentiment. This means users can target top influencers and learn the pros and cons about topics, and their impacts.
2. A good job search is all about relevance with relevant people
Firstly, you have to find them after you know what subject matter is relevant for your career goal. For example, advertising professionals should search topics related to advertising and marketing, and then click on “people” in the module on the left side.
In this way, you’ll discover a lot of people who are in your profession. If you know which companies for which you want to work, you can search for them, too. You’ll come across the companies’ decision-makers. Follow them and retweet their posts.
3. The value of hashtags
Businesses often use hashtags to categorize their tweets by keywords, e.g. “advertising job” or “job available.” You can, too.
4. Twitter lists
To stay organized in your job search, create Twitter lists. So people know you’re not just a spammer, create a list in the hypothetical example, “advertising professional.” Then, tweet in this list the tweets of advertising or marketing professionals. In this way, you’re likely to attract followers.
5. Using Twitter chats
In real-time, you can tweet about your preferred topics. Use this as an opportunity to start a dialogue by asking questions. To save time and effort by not having to constantly refresh your page, you can solve this by entering the hashtag into TweetChat. You’ll get an automatic refresh.
6. Naturally, only tweet pertinent topics
OK, by now you’ve got access to the right people. So only tweet links for your particular profession. If you have enough space, include your opinion to enhance your reputation.
7. Launch an appropriate blog
On your blog, insert links to your tweets. So when prospective bosses search for your name, you’ll create a favorable impression by demonstrating relevant insights that will be appealing.
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