Twitter is now being used as a job application board?a useful tool for employees and a boon for employers
It is now common knowledge that employers find your online persona a much better indicator of who you really are than the resume you send them. Endless articles have been published warning prospective employees of the dangers of voicing sensitive political views and uploading compromising party pictures on Facebook?your current and future employers could be, and likely are, watching. But those are the ways social media can harm your professional career. There?s a whole other social media effect that could actually help you land the job of your dreams. The key feature of Twitter is that anything you write is limited to pithy, 140-character sentences. That advantage is now being harnessed by workers and bosses alike. The former have begun to encapsulate their entire resumes in 140 characters?thus removing a lot of fluff and extraneous information and leaving only the points of value. And the latter couldn?t be more thrilled by this.
Employers usually receive thousands upon thousands of resumes, most of which they don?t have the time to see. A Twesume?Twitter resume?saves them the hassle of reading reams, allows them to search for the exact keywords they are looking for (financial lawyer, as opposed to, say, environmental lawyer) and gives employers a good idea of your interests via your past tweets. Of course, this isn?t yet a primary mode of recruitment, but it is gaining steam. Watch those hashtags, your potential boss could be reading!