Searching for a job right now? Hopefully you’re watching what you post on Twitter and Facebook! We’ve said this before, but a reminder is always timely – social media posts can help you land or lose a potential job.
And FYI: You’ll probably never know if it had an affect either way!
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According to a study released today by Bullhorn Reach, U.S. recruiters are among the most active recruiters in the world using social media to source talent.
LinkedIn has the most jobs posted to it, obviously, but Twitter isn’t too far behind. And Facebook falls flat. That all makes sense, if you stop to think about it.
But what doesn’t make sense is what the folks at Bullhorn found out when they compared recruiters’ activity by region in the U.S. And this was not a small sample. They analyzed the social networking activity of more than 75,000 recruiters.
Twitter is great for networking, but do you think you could ever land a job in 140-characters or less? SmashFly Technologies and TweetMyJOBS are bringing the social media job search to the micro-blogging platform in a recent partnership announcement, hoping that Twitter is just as useful as a job board as it is for celeb gossip.
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