Creating a Twitter Resume

Are you as excited about Twitter as the rest of the world? It s a great way to follow celebrities, causes, and to keep up with the lives of your friends.

People have definitely embraced Twitter as a major form of communication; however, because it only allows you to type 140 characters at a time, the communication can be a bit limited. This is especially true when trying to promote your resume – but people are doing it. If this is something you’ve considered, here are a few tips to get your resume noticed by others right on Twitter.

Linking to Your Resume

Of course, the first challenge to presenting a resume in Twitter is keeping it short. This is completely impossible to do within the character allotment, which is why certain applications have popped up to help in this process. You know right away that you can’t post your entire resume on your profile, which means you’ll need to post yours somewhere else online (a great place to do so is via TweetMyJobs.com). Once you ve got the resume up, you need to create a link to it in your Twitter message. The only problem is, often times, the link is simply too long to be able to add any additional message within it.

One application that provides a solution for this problem is link shortening applications, such as Bit.ly or TinyURL. These applications allow you to link your online resume to your Twitter message by creating a new link that uses significantly fewer characters. This way, you don’t have to use up your character count to post your resume, making the “tweeting” experience that much easier.

Making the Message Short and Clear

After you’ve created your resume URL, you want to type your message for your Twitter followers – or anyone else who happens to see. Remembering that you need to keep your characters at 140 or below, many job seekers use what are called hashtags along with Internet/texting shorthand to make themselves findable by recruiters.

Hashtags on Twitter basically provide an opportunity for others to find you through site searches. By including the pound sign (#) before your word, you’ve created a hashtag. Some good hashtags to use are #lookingforwork and #jobseeker.

Also, it’s good to include RT at the beginning of your message because it tells others they’re allowed to retweet your message.

An example of a job seeker’s Twitter resume might look like this (the link below is not real):

RT #Jane Doe seeks a PR DIR JOB http://bit.ly/resisgreat @TweetMyResume #resume #prjobs

The message is basically telling you that Jane Doe is looking for a Public Relations Director position and that you can find her resume with TweetMyResume.com at that link. The hashtags allow for those who search for #resume or #prjobs to find her message. The beginning of the message allows others to re tweet (or repeat) the message. That’s a lot of information for only 87 characters.

By learning how to create a Twitter resume, you have the opportunity to gain access to more recruiters than ever before. Consider giving it a go. You might find the job you ve been trying to get.

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Dream Job Wish List – Figure Out What You Were Meant to Do

If you are like most people you work because you have bills that need to get paid, but are you working at your dream job? The answer may not be so cut and dry because you may not even know what your dream job is. While working is simply a fact of life for most everyone on the planet, if you find your dream job and love what you do for work, it will be like you aren’t even working at all.

So how do you figure out what your dream job is? The best way is to create a dream job wish list. There are four things that you need to consider in order to formulate your dream job wish list:

1. What do you like doing in your spare time: Many times, the things you enjoy doing the most may be what you are best suited for career wise. Now this doesn’t meant that you can get a job watching football games on the weekends, but you should consider what you like to do when you are not working. Consider everything from sports you like to entertainment you like and then write it all down.

2. What job related things are you looking for: No matter what you do there are certain things you want to get out of a job besides a paycheck. Consider things that are important to you in this area like commute time, benefits, and hours worked. Again write down your results.

3. What type of work environment do you like: Do you want to work for a huge corporate giant or do you want to work in an environment that is a little less daunting? Do you like to be around a lot of people or a select few? Do you like high pressure or do you want to feel more laid back? Once again write down what you feel.

4. What do you like about your current job: What do you like about the job you have now or ones you have had in the past? Consider things such as did you like to lead, be part of a team, contribute independently, things of that nature. Whatever your thoughts are, you guessed it, write them down.

What you will now have is a piece of paper with all of your thoughts from the four questions above. This is your dream job wish list. Now you need to study your wish list and begin to put together the information to help you determine what it is you really want out of your working life. This may take some time and the answer will probably not leap off the page at you. But what you will begin to see is that careers you may have never before even thought of might start to sound good to you because they fit many of the parameters of your dream job wish list.

So take the time and try the exercise. Who knows, your dream job may be closer than you think.


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