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There are a lot of third party applications available for Twitter to enable you to use the site better, and as those of you who use the site all the time will know, there is lots of information or links published in Tweets. As I mentioned in my last post, Twitter is launching new search capabilties with an improved search engine to allow you to find all those links and then group them, making them easy to find. When I search Twitter I use #tags, so that I can follow emerging trends in areas that I’m interested in and this allows me to keep up with the latest Tweets on that subject, but I’d never thought about using Twitter to search for jobs, until now.

A new search engine called TwitterJobSearch uses semantic intelligence, link crawling and crowdsourcing to track job and recruitment tweets. It searches Twitter and pulls out tweets it believes to be job adds, meaning you can search for any type of job in any location and the search engine will display the tweets that are relevant to your query. By searching for sales jobs, IT or accountants you’ll get a list of jobs vacant. It is not perfect, as I searched for sales jobs in Brisbane and got a news story in the results, it was still very good.

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TwitterJobSearch claim that “over a 180,000 jobs have been advertised on Twitter in the last 30 days and indexed by them” so this makes it a comparable alternative to the major recruitment web sites.

If you have never thought of using Twitter as a free recruitment site then now is the time to try, if you’re looking for new sales staff or to fill any role you have vacant then this is a free resource for you, you’ll not only be promoting the job to your followers but it will also be picked up by job aggregators such as TwitterJobSearch.

So go forth and advertise.

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