Twitter
can help more job-seekers than any other traditional platform if it
incorporates a formal job board, say experts. The number of Twitter
users has grown more rapidly than LinkedIn and Facebook in 2014,
according to a study by the Pew Research Centre.
It
showed that Twitter has more job openings than other social media sites
and more job seekers than LinkedIn. However, only 15% of recruiters
have actually found someone to hire through Twitter.
The
people surveyed by Software Advice cited inconsistency of job postings
and poor communication by companies with job-seekers as reasons for
dissatisfaction.
Currently,
the primary way for a Twitter user to find a job is by following
specific companies she or he is interested in or by searching via
hashtags related to jobs, companies or industries.
But
a search for the hashtag #jobsearch will produce hundreds of tweets
that are not related to actual jobs, such as articles on job hunting,
random thoughts and junk tweets that use the hashtag for promotion.
In
addition, as new tweets keep appearing every few seconds, the process
of finding an appropriate job can be extremely time consuming and
difficult.
What
Twitter may do is to add this functionality, perhaps similar to what
sites like Monster.com or CareerBuilder have done. They aggregate job
postings, making it easy for job seekers to view jobs by different
parameters such as functional area, industry, region etc.
Posted by : Gizmeon
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