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In How to Find a Job on Twitter Part 1, we gave you the raw materials – tips on setting up an appropriate profile, following people relevant to your chosen profession and engaging with the big wide world (or world wide web, so to speak) through tweeting. This week, we cover the real business end of proceedings. Hopefully you’ll all have been merrily building your Twitter foundations in the intervening period – now it’s time to go in for the kill.

Amazingly, there exist a couple of very easy, very direct ways and means to find student jobs and graduate jobs through Twitter – many of which are unbeknownst to even the Twitter junkies amongst the student/graduate community. Handily, I’ve split them up and detailed the nitty-gritty below. So you’ve no excuses.

Following job Tweeters

This one might sound like a no brainer, but it’s worth reiterating that many online job sites will tweet about opportunities – @frlstudents for one! There are actually hundreds of Twitter accounts that fulfil this function, from notable job sites such as @guardianjobs to targeted industry and regional tweeters. I’ve picked out a few starters which might be useful below, but it’s just as easy to use Google to find some of your own:

http://twitter.com/Twitjobsuk

http://twitter.com/london_uk_jobs

http://twitter.com/topjobsinlondon

http://twitter.com/gorkana

Alternatively, check out other people’s lists of handy job sites and select a few to follow yourself:

http://twitter.com/phyllismufson/careers-europe

http://twitter.com/The_Jobs/o4-twit-jobs

This really is just the tip of the iceberg; the possibilities are endless.

Using special job searching tools for Twitter

It was only going to be a matter of time before some bright sparks started tinkering with ways to search Twitter for precise, targeted information in the body of tweets. Indeed, such bright sparks cracked this one almost 18 months ago, and there now exist quite a few websites specifically designed to facilitate your job hunting on Twitter. Whilst such helpful Samaritans include the likes of Check4Jobs and TweetMyJobs (which will even handily inform you of noteworthy jobs via mobile), general tech-writing consensus seems to be that TwitJobSearch is the daddy. It’s had kind words from the likes of Business Week and The Guardian. It has its own free iPhone app (which I can’t pretend to have trialled as I’m still steadfastly stuck in the dark ages). It must be the daddy.

So how does it work? Well, it’s actually breathtakingly ‘simples’. Upon loading the TwitJobSearch website you’ll be greeted with a search tool. Today I think I’d rather like to be an ‘IT consultant’ in London. Three search words and a left-click later and you’ll be greeted with this – a startlingly comprehensive run down of every permutation of this particular job to be found on the Twittersphere. You can then narrow down your search via criteria such as salary, location specifics and length of contract, all with a couple of clicks. Arrange by relevance or date posted? Done. Decided you now want to work in retail in Manchester? Done.

The fun doesn’t stop there either. Clicking the ‘Directory’ tab at the top of the homepage allows you to trawl through a list of Twitter job sites by industry. Whilst not entirely comprehensive, it’s certainly another weapon in your searching armoury, particularly as it includes a handy ‘Graduates’ list. Alternatively, hit the ‘Browse’ tab and sift through the jobs themselves via industry. Again, ‘Graduates’ is listed as a separate industry, with the option to search for ‘intern’, ‘graduate’ or ‘entry level’ positions.

It’s pretty hot stuff so experiment, fine-tune, and enjoy. Happy job-hunting.

Have you used TwitJobSearch? Do you know of any other useful Twitter tools for conducting job searches? Let us know below.

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