Job Search 2.0
By Kevin Donlin | April 30th, 2008
Had dinner with Jason Alba from JibberJobber.com last night. He’s in town for the Career Management Alliance conference this week. I’ll be there Thur. and Fri. interviewing people for my Star Tribune columns — if you see me, say Hey.
Jason’s a great guy and a veritable fire hose of information relating to all things job search 2.0.
I wanted to learn more about Twitter, the social-networking tool that gives real-time updates on what people are doing. So I asked Jason, point blank: “Can you use this thing to find a job?”
His reply was a qualified Yes. It won’t get most people a job crazy fast, but together with smart, consistent blogging, Twitter is one way to learn about and build relationships with people who matter in your industry.
A quick bit of research turned up one guy who got 4 job offers after a post to his blog and Twitter account.
Looking for a job has certainly changed since the last time I actively searched for a job.
My entire job search consisted of this blog post, and this tweeton Twitter. (Ok, I did send a couple of e-mails, but it sounds better if it’s just the blog and Twitter). Within 2 hours, I had 4 serious inquiries and 11 in total by the end of the first day. That’s pretty good, considering that I live on an island outside of Seattle, and not in the Bay Area. Interestingly enough, only two of those inquiries were from companies with physical offices in the Seattle area.
Warning: Don’t expect results like that overnight. Or even over 100 nights.
But you can create job security if you “dig your well before you’re thirsty,” (to quote Harvey Mackay) and “become a thought leader in your field because you’ve written and blogged over time about a topic you’re an expert in,” (to quote Jason Alba from dinner).
There’s more to write on this. A lot more. If you have a job-search success story about Twitter and/or blogging, or know of one, email to me me — kevin at thesimplejobsearch.com.
Meanwhile, I’ll be tweeting on Twitter.
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