On Campus
by Miller Roberts, III
mroberts@ccgmag.com
140 CHARACTERS TO A NEW JOB! W
here are all the sci- ence, technology, engineering and math jobs being
advertised? The answer is simple: Twitter!
With over 50 million daily tweets, micro-blogging website Twitter should be among the first places job seekers check for leads, mostly due to the sheer volume of them. An increasing number of job recruiters, career counseling centers and hu- man resource departments tweet the top science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) job opportunities and they are waiting for you to tweet them back.
Twitter,
www.twitter.com, requires users (tweeters) to deliver their messages in 140 characters or less. These efficient and concise mes- sages, called tweets, are delivered to the world instantly, much like a text message. Unlike a text message, your tweets appear on an endless number of Twitter viewing screens, called timelines, which are based on the sender’s popularity. For example, when @Raytheon_Jobs (the Twitter identity of the Raytheon Company’s human resource department) tweets about an open position, the tweet appears on their timeline page, www.
twitter.com/Raytheon_Jobs, as well as the timeline pages of all of their fol- lowers, currently over 3,000.
Twitterize Yourself
If you are going to join the 12 million Americans on Twitter, it is essential that you familiarize yourself with some of the Twitter lingo.
Follow (verb) - The process of sub- scribing to another tweeter’s tweets. When you follow someone, their tweets will appear in your timeline. You can also have tweets delivered to your mobile phone as a text message.
Retweet (verb) - The process of tweeting someone else’s tweet through your profile. This can be done
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easily by pressing the retweet button located in the lower right corner of tweets.
Tweet-up (verb) - An in-person meeting of tweeters. It is common for companies to organize a tweet-up to meet interview candidates.
Twitter Lists (noun) - Relatively re- cently, Twitter created a service called lists that allows tweeters to compile groups of like-minded tweeters.
URL Shortener (noun) - A service available on the world wide web, example www.
bit.ly, that takes a long web address and creates a shorter link. Since brevity is the key with Twit- ter, URL shorteners are an integral part of tweeting, especially when you need to link a reader to another web address for more information.
Hashtag Your Search
In the Twitter universe, the pound symbol is called a hash tag, and it is utilized in tweets as a categorization tool. The process is simple. Tweeters place a hash tag in front of an impor- tant word so that the tweets can be efficiently found later on Twitter’s search site,
www.search.twitter.com. Searching for a particular job is fast and simple when the proper hash tags are used. There are several very active STEM-related hash tags on Twitter that can help guide your job search – #chemist, #engineering, #green, #IT and #technology. Hash tags are also regularly used to follow a conversa- tion among several people on Twitter.
Follow Industry Leaders
With each passing day, Twit- ter becomes more thoroughly in- tegrated into the human resources strategies of STEM industry leaders. The Raytheon Company, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Boeing Company,
CHECK-OUT & FOLLOW THESE TWALLIES (TWITTER ALLIES)
@AstraZenecaJobs @ATTjobs @Boeing_Jobs @BoozAllen @ecolab_Jobs @eMCCollege @eMCCareers @findinternships @FSCCareers @GDRecruiting @HBCu_exchange @Jobsatintel @LockheedJobs @MerckJobs @Raytheon_Jobs @RDeCOM @SAiCRecruiter @SodexoCareers @WOCTechnology @Blackengineer @ccgpublisher @diversitynews @Hispaniceng
Merck and many others are among the industry leaders tweeting about their job offerings. These companies are not only tweeting jobs, but they are also tweeting industry tips, the latest industry trends, and all-around good advice that you will need to help launch your career. The list of industry leaders above includes STEM organizations that you should follow to get the latest information about jobs and career advice.
The instantaneous (not to men- tion free) communication provided by Twitter has unlocked an entirely new method for conducting a job search, but you have to know operate in the Twitter universe. Learning the lingo, following the correct tweeters and using hash tags effectively are skills essential to finding your next job- through Twitter, the next great social-networking service.
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