With the continuing rise of Twitter in Ireland and some great examples of how if can be used effectively for “real stuff”, like twitter.com/twecipe (hats off to twitter.com/niallharbison for leading the way), we are introducing job searching via Twitter. Here’s how it works:
- Follow twitter.com/rocketjobs
- If we’re not already following you we’ll auto-follow you back
- Once that’s done you can send a direct message to rocketjobs like this: D java developer
- We’ll DM you back with some results like this “Try this - Senior J2EE Software Developer (http://www.rocketjobs.ie/job/1288)“
Why use direct messages? Well, we don’t think you want the world to see what jobs you’re searching for! If you do a regular tweet to twitter.com/rocketjobs it’ll just be ignored and hopefully the rest of the Twitterverse will cast a blind eye too.
We hope you like this new capability and we’d love to have your feedback or ideas on how it might be made better. We’re working on some enhancements already and hope to have these available for you soon. We’re also planning on adding some more Web 2.0 features generally, but in the meantime enjoy and spread the word like only Twitter can!