The Twitter training (twaining) is complete, over 90 minutes of solid work on using the Twitter protocol to recruit. The cost? $89.
You can find almost 800 developers in St Louis in less than 10 seconds on Google. Do you know how to reach them, get them to respond, and hire them?
Jim Durbin, the Social Media Headhunter, presents the sixth volume in his series on using social media to recruit. Twitter As A Recruiting Tool demonstrates live shots of how to source, connect and hire from the world's most popular microblogging service. Follow Jim at http://twitter.com/smheadhunter, or check out the recruiter training store for more titles.
Twitter is a microblogging site, a community where groups of people share thoughts and links in a text messaging format that allows only 140 characters. Having experienced explosive growth in the last year, Twitter is a hot property for finding passive candidates and engaging in industry debates.
Like all networks, Twitter has its own rules and etiquette. Users must choose to “follow” you to get updates, and writing the wrong updates will quickly drop the number of people who read you. Used correctly, Twitter is a reserve brain of 1000’s of people in your industry. You can quickly get the answers to questions, find “buzz” before your competitors, and increase the power of your SEO and online profile.
Mostly, you can use it to recruit really smart people. In this ninety minute presentation, Jim turns you into one of the “Twitterati” and sets you loose on a vibrant candidate population.
