Starting it all off

For this exercise I am going to keep personal and professional  accounts separate. This is business! I want a job. I doubt my prospective employer wants to know how many weetbix I had for breakfast, or how my ingrowing toenail is doing.

So I don't import all my gmail / facebook etc contacts from my personal accounts. Sorry, but I don't really need you guys to see what I'm up to (I'll let then know when I get the job!)

Twitter
I don't totally get how to use twitter. I know it can provide some good, funny, interesting tweets, but just find it hard to find anything useful or worthwhile in the vast ocean of irrelevant trivia. I leave it to the TV and radio programs and news to tell me who's tweeted what.

For my purpose I can be a bit more focused. I live in Australia, I want a job in IT and I want it in Brisbane. OK, Melbourne or any other city or state will do, I'm not desperate, but I do need a job.

So, I learn about hashtags. When you tweet, use the tags to appeal to others who might be interested in your tweets.  #IT #Jobs #Brisbane and why not #Melbourne. I think that narrows it down so Australia might be excessive.

But where do I tweet? I did the first one from my account. The whole world is sat there with bated breath waiting for me to start tweeting! And off it goes. Hmmm, not many replies after a day or two.

So I start searching and find other accounts. Some of these are the equivalent of groups. Sure they have an owner, but they seem to be open discussions. So I use my tags as search terms. And I find what looks like some useful accounts. Accounts have the @ prefix :

IT Jobs Brisbane  @ITjobsBNE

IT&TechJobs @IT_Tech_Work_AU

ITJobsMelbourne@ITJobsMelbourne

 

Great - its seems to be getting useful. I'm going to have a look and let you know how it goes later.