Recruiting through Twitter

[Sanjeev Ammanna]

Can anyone please share theri experience recruiting through Twitter -- finding people, search strings and contacting them.

Thanks,

Sanjeev

[gary cozin]

Sanjeev-

On this site: http://search.twitter.com/ you can use operators from Twiiter to search. Here's a link to those operators:

http://search.twitter.com/operators

Here's an example: sql near:Boston within:25mi

They also have an advanced search page with more options: http://search.twitter.com/advanced

Or you could try the xray command in Google: site:twitter.com and add your key words & areas-


Gary

[Martin Lee]

Sanjeev,

This should help

http://www.booleanblackbelt.com/2009/01/searching-twitter-for-sourc...

[Rithesh Nair - Sourcing guy]

http://www.slideshare.net/rithesh/recruiting-via-twitter
Check my slideshare ppt.. will give u some idea

[John Burzynski]

I have only tested it and I was not too impressed. I think there are easier ways to find people.

[Amanda Blazo]

With the tools mentioned below you shouldn't have to spend hours "following" people on twitter. If a tool takes up too much of a recruiters time it's not valuable anymore. So use the tools below and limit the time you spend.

[Sanjeev Ammanna]

Thanks Gary for the help.

-Sanjeev

gary cozin said:

Sanjeev-

On this site: http://search.twitter.com/ you can use operators from Twiiter to search. Here's a link to those operators:

http://search.twitter.com/operators

Here's an example: sql near:Boston within:25mi

They also have an advanced search page with more options: http://search.twitter.com/advanced

Or you could try the xray command in Google: site:twitter.com and add your key words & areas-


Gary

[Sanjeev Ammanna]

Great Slide Ritesh..... enough for a layman to understand Twitter.

-Sanjeev

Rithesh Nair said:

http://www.slideshare.net/rithesh/recruiting-via-twitter
Check my slideshare ppt.. will give u some idea

[Sanjeev Ammanna]

Thanks Martin.

Martin Lee said:

Sanjeev,

This should help

http://www.booleanblackbelt.com/2009/01/searching-twitter-for-sourc...

[Rithesh Nair - Sourcing guy]

Sanjeev,
I must have tested 50+ applications to search on twitter..the ones mentioned on the ppt worked good for me.

Rithesh
Sanjeev Ammanna said:

Great Slide Ritesh..... enough for a layman to understand Twitter.

-Sanjeev

Rithesh Nair said:

http://www.slideshare.net/rithesh/recruiting-via-twitter
Check my slideshare ppt.. will give u some idea

[Rithesh Nair - Sourcing guy]

John,
Twitter for recruiting is still on the infancy stage.. it will take some time. I remember 4 yrs back many recruiters/companies used to say the same about Linkedin
And you are right there are easier ways to find people .. twitter is just one another tool..doing 2-3 tweets a day (relevant to your interest) take 2 mins.. its worth building a brand and Yes you can get sucked in to it (I know you aint recruiting on twitter.aspx ) so have to be careful but worth generating the leads.

Regards
Rithesh

John Burzynski said:

I have only tested it and I was not too impressed. I think there are easier ways to find people.