How to Find a Job on Twitter (Part 3)
December 9, 2010 
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Another way to find jobs on Twitter (assuming that you read the earlier 2 parts of this series) is to search certain hashtags. Lots of times, people use them as a way to promote their open positions. Here are a few examples of jobs (or job leads) that have been posted using various job-related hashtags.
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Here is a list of hashtags you may want to play around with in your searches:
- #jobs
- #job
- #jobhunt
- #jobfair
- #jobsearch
- #hiring
- #fresher (For students fresh out of college)
- #helpwanted
- #career
- #HR
- #intern
- #jobangels
- #hirefriday
You might also get lucky if you do a hashtag out of your job title. For example…
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You may want to narrow your search down to a location. As such, include the name of the area with your search and/or as a hashtag. For example., using the hashtag #SFO to find jobs in San Francisco.
Some other search strings to try on Twitter:
Umm… I think that will be it for this series, unless something else hits me in the middle of the night and I get inspired to write more on this. Time will tell.
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Terrific work! This is the type of information that should be shared around the web. Shame on the search engines for not positioning this post higher!
Great information for the serious job seeker.
Well, of course I had to read installment #3 of using Twitter to find a job. Never thought about or even knew about hash tags. I learned something new today.
Thanks.
Informative info about using of hash tags.
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Great post! Very accurate and easy to understand. As a corporate recruiter and avid user of twitter for recruiting, I would say that hashtags are very effective. When I post about jobs I commonly use #jobsearch, #hiring and #careers. I learned something from your series as well like about including locale in my posts from now on. Thanks!