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I have attended an average 2 networking events a week in January, met many great people, and each time I chat about social media. People keep commenting:
“What IS Twitter?”
“I’m on LinkedIn but I don’t really use it.”
“My son/daughter is on Facebook.” (Implied: “But I’m not.”)
Tonight, I encountered Jobfeedr.com.
What’s Twitter good for then? This is what it’s great for: direct feeds of job postings for select cities (of COURSE Seattle is included) and professions of interest. Straight to you, via your computer or your phone.
Visit it, play with it, and subscribe to the feed relevant to your job search. It’s a straight pipeline, real-time, of job postings as these savvy recruiters post them.
Decide post by post whether to apply rather than surfing job boards – that drecky old way of finding a job.
As my blog shows, I’ve been reading a lot about social media as it relates to job search. It’s the latest, greatest way gaining adoption as Monster.com and CareerBuilder.com fade.
Why the fade? One, they’re no longer the new kid on the block. Two, new technologies are sexier, quicker, better refined. Last, audiences are distinctly more self-selecting than 10 years ago. Just as television fragmented into cable, aggregate sites like job boards are now fragmenting into niche services.
Technology will continue to accelerate everything. And “change” is the game in 2009. Embrace it, run with it, and make it yours.