TweetDeck + TwitterJobSearch = JobDeck – helps you find your next job.
Every now and then there comes a disruptive technology that changes the rule of the game. My initial analysis of using this application makes me believe that such mashups will play vital role as far as job search is concerned. Applications like JobDeck will provide an alternate channel for employers to scout for new talent and at the same time give multiple opportunities to the jobseeker.
TweetDeck and TwitJobSearch have teamed up to provide you with a dedicated JobDeck. This makes it even easier to search for jobs, as well as staying in touch with what’s happening now, and connecting you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and more. Source: TweetDeck.
The Hiring ecosystem:
Since I run an HR services company and a social media enthusiast I am in a position to analyze the tool both from the employer and employee perspective. My analysis of the positioning of JobDeck is given below in the table.
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Job Seeker |
Employer |
| Register profile with job boards | Advertise job on job boards |
| Subscribe to job news letters | Send out job related news letters |
| Conduct a job search via job boards | Conduct candidate search using job boards |
| Apply to companies directly | Get in touch with candidates directly |
| Increasingly use social media to look for open positions | Increasingly use social media to advertise open positions |
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Here comes in avenues like JobDeck, where job seeker and employer create a relationship synchronously
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JobDeck analysis:
JobDeck consists of primarily 2 column layout where in the first column job related tweets are displayed using the powerful search engine developed by guys at TwitJobSearch. The tweets are filtered in a manner where the content is limited to job hunting. There is a “Job Search Experts” user list. This area can be used to stay updated with the latest development in the job market and it has lot of HR and career related articles as well. The second column is a dedicated column that is directly connected to the main feed of TwitJobSearch which searches the web and returns search results relevant to jobs and job market.
What I would love to see in JobDeck
- Even more powerful search – based on location, job type, company name like you usually have on job boards
- Ability to filter updated just based on my career stream. Like a customized JobDeck for a sales professional in the telecommunication sector.
- Ability to develop contact base and tweet with each contact from JobDeck
- Trending like twitter
- Better integration with other social media applications
JobDeck is a pretty decent attempt made towards being innovative, it has a long way to go before it can become main stream and threaten the existence of traditional media like Job Boards. Did we just think about News Papers are traditional media?? Sorry that’s dead long time ago.
To me this is a brilliant concept and the first step towards a newer, smarter and a synchronous mechanism for a job seeker and an employer.
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Comments
thanks for sharing the link i am sure it will be useful to the readers. i must say yours is an interesting concept with good clients and decent credentials. i guess http://tweetmyjobs.com/ is surely a good alternative.
For targeted Job Tweets, a jobseeker should also check out TweetMyJOBS.com. Over 8,000 vertical Job Channels on Twitter, segmented by geography and job type. Jobseekers can even tweet their resume into the twittersphere….