A more efficient way might be to find and connect with the individuals who post the jobs you seek on a platform where they are likely to be responsive. This post will help you use specific terms and search methods to focus your search results and streamline your efforts.
Visual.ly 5/28/2013 #Jobs
TIP: Search Twitter for the type of job you seek and include location and #jobs. If you use the term #jobs in your Twitter search or Google search of Twitter, you are likely to get a list of companies and recruiters who have hired for that position in the past or are currently hiring for that position.
Try this Google search: mobile app developer jobs dallas – you will retrieve a huge list of jobs, mostly from job boards and scraping services. It is daunting and, I’ll suggest, not a very focused approach.
Nothing wrong with job boards. But if you search like this: site:twitter.com mobile app developer #jobs dallas – the results are several companies (actual app dev companies), agencies, and individual recruiters who have posted job openings for this skill set in the past and recently.
Simply adding the hashtag symbol # before the word jobs, and directing Google to search Twitter (site:twitter.com) will help narrow your results to actual people and companies. Follow them on Twitter, interact with them, get to know them, reply, retweet, etc. In other words, be a good networker and get friendly. Then, if their culture seems a good fit – and your skills do as well, let them know you are interested in possibly working with them and ask to set up coffee or a phone call.
Additional resources that I found interesting:
http://careerenlightenment.com/50-hottest-twitter-hashtags-for-job-seekers
Awesome blog. I enjoyed reading your articles.
Really informative post. It is beneficial for job seekers.
Hi Amanda, thx for the comment. Did you see the example I posted of doing a Google search of Twitter with #jobs and other search criteria? It only brings up the profiles real people and some dev companies. Those are the folks I suggest connecting with. Again, I'm not knocking job boards. Cheers, CF
Speaking as one niche job board – I'd go beyond the hashtag "jobs" and dig a little deeper.
Whatever your industry, no doubt there is a jobs board and a dozen major employers that immediately come to mind. Find them on Twitter, interact, and begin networking and building a reputation.
I manage the @EngineerJobs account and rarely, if ever, use the #jobs hashtag. A quick search and you'll see it's filled with spam from lifeless autobot accounts. I don't intend to add more noise than already exists in this ecosystem.
So with EngineerJobs- we are careful to highlight just sub-niches within engineering. In a typical day we might talk about the new Entry-Level jobs that have come up in the last week, share an article or two, and interact with a half dozen or more engineers and engineering students in a job search. For hashtags, we usually stick to #engineering or #AvGeek – something highly relevant to the audience we're trying to talk to.
Twitter is ultimately a tool for interaction. Just broadcasting, whether through the #jobs hashtag or something else, is missing the point.