subject: How to Use Twitter to Find Potential Job Candidates [print this page] How to Use Twitter to Find Potential Job Candidates
What can you learn about people on Twitter? Well, a lot! In fact, you can even use this popular social networking site to find possible employees or marketing partners. Posting a poll on Twitter will elicit responses from those who follow you. Even if you don't know those followers in real life, you can identify potential candidates to hire based on the answers and interaction you receive.
If you were hiring employees the traditional way, you would look at the applicants' resumes to get a good impression of them. You usually spend only 30 seconds to go over each one, given your busy schedule and the large volume of applications. Sometimes, you will have to dig through the pages to find the information you're looking for. It's also possible that you might miss important data.
With a Twitter poll, you can provide answer choices and limit the length of the responses. Interested candidates will be forced to keep their replies short and straight to the point, so you don't have to seek information or miss anything.
You can use Twitter to learn beyond a potential hire's name, age, contact number, and the like. Creating a poll will be just like conducting an actual interview. You can ask the usual questions such as:
Tell me about yourself.
What experience do you have in this field?
What do you know about this company?
Why did you leave your last job?
Have you ever been fired from a job?
Are you a team player?
Where do you see yourself in five years?
Tell me about your dream job.
What are your strengths?
What are your weaknesses?
As you can see, Twitter is no longer just for telling your friends what you're currently doing. You can utilize Twitter polls to identify potential employees, and doing so saves you plenty of time. Unlike a traditional job interview, you can "interview" several applicants all at once and while doing something else.
There are several websites that offer free services for creating Twitter polls. All you have to do is select the poll type, enter your questions and answer choices, and publish the poll to Twitter.
