Sorry we've been away so long! I was surprised, today, to see no one had written anything for over a month.Sadly, none of us were really on holiday. Bill has been rebuilding his late mother's cottage from scratch practically single-handed since the Spring, and has been working hard all through the summer to get finished before winter. Geoffrey just got back this weekend from visiting family for a couple of months. Unless you count 'taking up the slack' as a valid excuse for ignoring you for over a month, though, I'm afraid I haven't got one.
Anyway! The silly season is almost over, Geoffrey is back, and Bill's cottage has heating, windows and floorboards, and we can hopefully get to normal now - although I'm not sure that what I want to tell you about today is going to be very useful.
I had an e-mail this morning via Secrets of the Job Hunt Career Podcast that was talking about Tweety Jobs .
Despite the Twitter-like birds on the website, and Freshout's (don't ask!) input, Tweety Jobs is not genuinely part of Twitter - and it isn't part of Secrets of the Job Hunt, either. It seems to be something quite new that is being run by someone called Matt Blyth, and it was posted as part of a blog on Secrets of the Job Hunt by Chris Russell,who runs a series of on-line Job Boards in the United States.
I frankly wasn't impressed by the Tweety Jobs site (or its 'tweety' title!) but if enough people use it, it might become what it's trying to be - 'the worlds truly employment-centric social network'. Or it might not. But it's worth signing up just in case it does.
In the meantime, if you haven't signed up to Secrets of the Job Hunt - you could be missing out. Many of the Podcasts are useful and interesting wherever you live.
Emily - http://www.therapypartnership.com
Hi Emily! Thanks for writing about TweetyJobs.com. You've got it right - we're going to become the world's first career-centric network! We have over 500,000 jobs from twitter and corporate web sites and direct-posts, and TweetyJobs helps you connect and collaborate with people like you who have the same skills, live in the same area, and are interested in the same jobs. One recruiter recently called us the "facebook for jobs" - we're the world’s first truly open and free career-centric social networking platform. We've been seeing about 100 people a day joining the site, and recruiter response has been positive. The site is fairly new, and so we're still working out bugs, kinks, and other issues, but we've got a lot of great stuff planned that will make this a real killer app!
ReplyDeleteThe person that you are referring to is Matt Smyth, and he is our community manager - you can learn more about him by going to http://www.tweetyjobs.com/MatthewSmyth
My name is Joe Stubblebine, and I'm one of the founders of TweetyJobs - you can find my on TweetyJobs at http://TweetyJobs.com/JoeStubblebine. Join and connect with me!
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ReplyDeleteI am Matt Smyth, the Community Manager for TweetyJobs. Thanks for the review. I always appreciate feedback.
It's our hope, that by harnessing the real time data of Twitter, thousands of corporate job sites, and the energy of a vibrant career-focused community, we can help connect people and move careers forward.
Our community is growing every day and we have a lot of big plans. So, keep an eye on us!
Matt Smyth