I just had my 1,000th conversation about Twitter at a recruiting (#recruiting) conference (#conference) and it went the way of 990 of them. Just like this:
“We’ve been doing social media (#social media, #networking, #social) for a long time (#time). We have a Facebook page. We’re on LinkedIn. We have a blog and we post all our jobs on Twitter.”
Twitter (#lovetotweet) has taken its place as one of the triple crowns of recruiting (#recruiting, #triplecrown,#racing): Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter.
No wonder Twitter is ready to IPO (#TwitterIPO).
Pushing all your jobs out on a Twitter feed is not social media (#spoilsport, #tiltingatwindmills, #whocares, #toomuchworktodoanythingelse). But pushing out all your jobs to your Facebook page (#Facebook, #page, #pushing, #pushyknowitall) isn’t much better.
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Twitter is a broadcast medium (#broadcast, #TV, #medium, #spiritworld) that gets treated as if there was only one channel (#channel, #toomuchworktodoanythingelse). And those hashtags (#hashtags). Have you ever searched a hashtag (#hashtag, #search, #ever)? Nearly useless (#useless, #whocares).
And now, it’s not just me (#me).
Another great read @John. Shame on people if they turn Twitter into a real time job req aggregator under the pretext of social recruiting.
Twitter is unique because the messages are so disposable. Which is exactly why it is a terrible place to post your jobs.
Hilarious John, one of your funniest posts. I’d love to hear from anyone that is getting measurable results out of Twitter for recruiting.