Twitter Checklist

Posted by David Gallant | June 7, 2009 .

Connecting with potential employers may be simple while using Twitter, but staying prepared is vital for success after the first conversation. Compare your Twittering against this checklist to prove if you will make the cut.

A link to your home base. The URL in your profile must link to somewhere that describes you; whether it is a personal blog, a LinkedIN profile, or even website describing your past work experiencs. Also provide a link somewhere with an email address.
Retweet-ability-Dan Zarella’s Retweetability Index, or formula to calculate your tweets to retweets ratio.
View your follower/following recent friends. If you have 30 followers on Twitter, and 29 of them are spam accounts, you will be viewed as a spammer, or someone only looking to market something on Twitter.
Search for your @username, to see what can be viewed publicly. Any Twitter user can search for all @ replies sent back to you, to view conversations that you have had with people.
Do you communicate with only brands and organizations, or are you talking with people too. If you want to find a job designing new bottles for Coca-Cola, asking @cocacola for a job will lead to 0% success. Leverage your connection to @cocacola to connect with a personal account of an employee within the company to make the first contact.
Follow local career placement companies on Twitter. The speed of posting is quicker than any other medium, which will increase your chances exponentially for landing the job.