This month, Job-Hunt compiled and published 2 very popular blog posts: The Top 50 Employers Recruiting on Twitter and The Top 50 College and University Career Centers Using Twitter. A few people have asked what criteria were used to determine which Twitter accounts were included in the Top 50. As with the thousands of other links on Job-Hunt, care was used in making the selections.
The criteria:
1.) The Twitter account was “findable” using either/both Twitter Search functions(People and search.twitter.com) or Google’s site search.
2.) The account indicated, hopefully in the Name, that it represented a specific employer.
3.) The account linked to the named employer’s Website.
4.) Some indication in the Bio section that the account was for recruiting.
5.) That jobs were being Tweeted more often than raining-here-today Tweets.
6.) The account was reasonably active in Tweeting.
7.) The Tweets were a relatively constant stream.
8.) There was reasonably current activity in the Twitter account.
9.) The links to jobs in the Tweets, when clicked, went to either the employer’s Website or to a legitimate job site with verifiable employer contact information for the contact in the posting.
The 2 Twitter search functions, combined with Google site search of Twitter as back-up, were used to find these accounts. No other Websites were accessed.
A major concern behind the creation of these lists is the vast number of bogus sites out there, probably including bogus Twitter accounts, trying to reel in job seekers for fraud, identity theft, etc. So, every attempt was made to ensure that these accounts are genuine.
Good luck with your job search!
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About the author…
Online job search expert Susan P. Joyce has been observing the online job search world and teaching online job search skills since 1995. Susan is a two-time layoff “graduate” who has worked in human resources at Harvard University and in a compensation consulting firm. In 1998, her company, NETability, Inc. purchased Job-Hunt.org, and Susan has been editor and publisher of Job-Hunt since then. Follow Susan on Twitter @JobHuntOrg.
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