CareerTimes, one of the largest web recruitment networks in Hong Kong recently announced that they are on Twitter and will be feeding Job Opening Tweets for global talents. They are the first Hong Kong recruitment networks that make job seeking available on Twitter.
Most of you must be in a way familiar with web recruitment services like CareerTimes, either as a job seeker or as an employer. Careertimes is now offering a series of twitter accounts that provides categorized job openings feeding to your twitter.
For Job seeking Tweeples
Traditionally you can only use some hard-to-configure "alert agents" provided by individual recruitment network to keep yourself up-to-date to the HR market. This old fashion way will only provide you discrete, scattered, narrow-minded and out-dated job openings. With twitter job feeds, structured search can now be created freely through your favorite twitter clients e.g. Seesmic Desktop, Tweetdeck, to name a few.
For Employers And HR Tweeples
I am not sure if anyone would do this, but if you are dedicated enough, you may find it remarkably resourceful and targeted to add those who follow particular CareerTimes's Twitter account. One good thing about these followers is that you can push the information of your openings to targeted potential candidates even with the absence of recruitment agents. You can even interact with them and profile them better before meeting them! It may come to a point that eventually change the entire recruitment process when it becomes more popular looking for jobs or candidates on twitter in the future.
For Entrepreneurs And Marketing Tweeples
Twitter feeds are organized in a timely manner. These data, if analyzed properly, can benefit a lot of different sectors (e.g. finance, HR, etc etc) from job seeking census to finding the trend of new product/technology.
If you go one step further, you may notice that those who follow specific CareerTimes Twitter could be the targeted leads of your business. An @IT_JobsinHK follower may be particular interested in open source products (geeky nature :P), OR a @Career_Times follower who have "Web Design" in their profile may be very interest in your Web Hosting service, and could eventually be a huge lead if he is employed by a webdesign company to manage web projcets in the future.
These are just extremely shortlisted of what these twitter services can benefit you. Go to CareerTimes to find out what other areas they are twittering on!
Have you ever succeeded in job seeking or recruitment with Twitter? What's your success story?
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I think jobsdb was the first
I think jobsdb was the first online job portal in hk to twit...
JobsDB was really the first
JobsDB was really the first recruitment network in Hong Kong that has set up a twitter account, however instead of pushing new postings they published corporate news with it by the time this article was written. It seems JobsDB have spotted the competition and have set up a series of new twitter accounts based on categories recently and pushing new postings now too. You can find out more following @HKJobs.
But do you think Twitter is
But do you think Twitter is really a good tool to push jobs? I mean they have tons of jobs everyday and would it be a bit too much for job seekers? I would like its a bit annoying to have tons of jobs pushing into my mailbox which I end up not reading them at all. Personally I think Twitter is a great tool to push instant message, message with has the value and uniqueness to drive attentions. What do you think?
There are actually many tools
There are actually many tools that can ease your effort on monitoring tweets. As in this particular case, some tools can help monitor particular keyword, say "system analyst" "designer" in separate columns/views so that you will be able to extract 1st hand information whenever they have new openings with those keywords. Although some may argue that sending resume to employers in the first few days will have lower success rate, if you actually respond to new opening within the first few hours you will definitely have distinct advantage over others :)
Honestly, the use of twitter
Honestly, the use of twitter is just a kind of gimmick, not really that useful.
BTW, i always prefer using JobsDB rather then CareerTimes :)
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