On using Twitter for your job search

For those of you just getting familiar with Twitter, I would like to share this insight that I learned from others recently. Not only is Twitter a great tool for networking with people in your industry and area, and can certainly help you find full-time and freelance work, but it is also useful when targeting the company you want to work for.

If the company you want to work for is up on their social media involvement, then you can seek out people who work for that company on Twitter and that you can relate to. Then get to know them and engage them in dialogue. You'll get to know more about the company and the people who work there. It will help you know if that environment is really something you would want to be a part of. In addition, if you already know people at the company via Twitter, then applying for a job will be that much easier. They may even offer you a chance at a job before posting it anywhere else.

Please share any other insights you've learned as comments to this post or respond via Twitter at http://twitter.com/hippity.