TwitterJobSearch
I looked at TwitterJobSearch a while back and for some reason it didn’t really register. However, I saw recently that they were anouncing updates, so I took another look.
Firstly what is it?
It’s a job search engine that uses Twitter as its source of jobs. OK, I admit I’m still pretty sceptical about the real value of candidates you get from Twitter, but I thoughht I’d have a look and see how it might help move Twitter one step closer to a useful application.
First Impressions
Its a nice looking 2.0 site. Clean, simple and pretty easy to use. The homepage has one large form field titled, “What do you want to do?” – thats nice. (There is an advanced search too). It also has a large counter showing how many jobs have been added in the last 30 days. (300,000 if I recall).
Does it work for the candidate?
Actually it does seem to. Searching is simple, and filters work reasonably well. However, my first question was how do they know the location, salary, job type & job title from a simple tweet? More on that in a moment. I searched for Pharma Jobs and was pleased to see a selection of PharmiWeb jobs, from a bunch of my different twitter accounts.
You can search and save jobs when you link to your own twitter account, and you can addyour own profile and links to LinkedIn and other online CVs.
Applying for a job involves clicking a small (cute) icon below the job labelled “I can do that“, then you get a chance to select whether you want a public or private application. Its seems pretty slick. Job owners are notified by tweet that they have a new application.
Twitterjobsearch results
Does it work for advertising my pharma jobs?
Well, if you have a twitter account with your jobs, you may already be listed. if not, you can post directly (time consuming) or can provide them with an XML feed, which is where they get their “advanced” detail from I guess. Is it worth doing? Looking at the PharmiWeb stats its hard to determine as any clicks to the original job as they are not campaign flagged in any way.
Beyond Twitter
It looks like they also scrape a bit more detail of the job’s original page which is clever, and also create a list of keywords (presumably keyword matching) Read more…
