How To Geek On

The question I left you with last week was “what can twitter do for your job search?” You’ve read last week’s article (What is Twitter?), gotten signed up for twitter, and started playing around with it. Now its time to make twitter a significant resource in your job hunt!

Your job search needs social media – avoid these 5 mistakes!

Your social media footprint follows you everywhere you go. Do you know where it leads? Do you know how it’s being used? Do you know how to maintain it?

I had the opportunity to chat with TweetMyJOBS founder, Gary Zukowski. Inside, Gary talks about Twitter, Social Media, today’s job search, and why in the world he’d base his livelihood on Twitter – a company that has yet to clearly define it’s business model.

Yesterday my twice-monthly networking group met. I didn’t have a guest speaker lined up, and so we used the last few minutes of our meet-up to talk about twitter and social media. I asked the question, “How many of you have a twitter account?” I was the only one with my hand raised. Because of that, I’m doing a series of articles over the next couple weeks on social media, starting with this article “What is Twitter?”