Internet Marketing & RecruitingTweetMyJobs Fail
by Travis Scott | RainierDigital LLC | June 21st, 2009
Because of my background in recruiting and staffing, many of my clients are recruiting firms. In a few weeks I will be presenting a webinar on using social media to recruit – which will be applicable not only to agency recruiters, but to corporate recruiters as well.
I have heard a lot of buzz about TweetMyJobs, a Twitter service that helps match your jobs to the appropriate candidates, sending them a text message of your job opening.
It sounded interesting and I was a little skeptical going in, so I wanted to see if they could turn me into a fan. Some of the questions I had include:
- How is it any different than receiving an email from Careerbuilder or Monster with jobs that are supposed to be a match for what you are looking for? (other than costing you money with every text you receive if you don’t have an unlimited text messaging plan)
- How is this service going to truly navigate the “noise” of Twitter to bring job poster and job seeker together?
- Is it really worth paying for (if you are posting a job)?
Let’s just say that I didn’t get very far in my research this morning. I went thru the registration process as a job seeker only to not be able to login afterwards. Didn’t even get a confirmation email that I registered.
OK. Maybe I did something wrong when I signed up, even though nothing told me of the contrary. I then decided to try to register as a job poster- same thing happened.
So, long story short. I couldn’t even register on their site to try their service so I could ‘plug’ them in my webinar in a couple of weeks.
We’ll see if they can change my mind between now and then, but as of now my ‘plug’ is to not even waste your time. There are other resources I can show my audience with respect to posting jobs- and they are FREE!
