My favorite social media site is Twitter. Although there are several tools for interacting in different ways with Twitter the best tool out there by far is Tweetdeck. I've mentioned this app several times in previous posts, particularly on how staffing agencies can use Tweetdeck for recruiting and new business leads.
Tweetdeck has now expanded this ability even more. By partnering with TwitJobSearch, a Twitter-based job search engine, Tweetdeck now offers a custom branded interface that finds job and recruitment related Tweets called JobDeck.
Essentially, it's Tweetdeck with two additional columns added by default: ‘Job Search Experts’ and ‘TwitJobSearch’. Add in your own personal search columns, in addition to your Facebook and LinkedIn columns, and you have a fantastic source for online recruiting.
In addition to posting on Twitter, with a few extra steps, recruiters can also have their tweets posted and indexed by TwitJobSearch, helping them to more effectively connect with potential candidates online. You can also post premium job listings, or "Tweetured" (terrible name) as they call it, on the TwitJobSearch site on a Cost Per Click (CPC) basis.
I'm curious to know if any of you start using this service and what the results are.
I looked at TweetDeck before, but didn't like having to post one job at a time. Did you see some way different than that when you looked at it Jason?
Posted by: Jeff Long | Friday, January 29, 2010 at 05:52
That's a good point. For a company like yours that is getting so many jobs I'm sure it would be a hassle to post each on individually. I think the only way around that would be to take advantage of the Twitter API and build something that would allow you to post multiple jobs quickly.
Posted by: Jason Lander | Friday, January 29, 2010 at 05:58
Certainly is showing the way that more and more recruiting activities in 2010 will be based on Social media.
Thanks for sharing, you're good as ever.
Posted by: Ajay Jetti | Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 20:10