I really love checking out new things online and playing about with the latest gadgets and websites. Some of the things don’t end up resonating with me that well and I usually drop them pretty quickly after I’ve had a mess around. However, a fairly recent favourite site, which doesn’t show any signs of letting up, is Twitter.

I’ve been on Twitter for the last 3 months or so and have really got into the micro-blogging. It enabled me to find out we’d had a double win at this year’s Onrec Awards as the Jobsite team tweeted live from the awards, which I wasn’t able to attend. I’ve also been at conferences and been part of the crowd twittering on about the latest news from the event live as the action happens.

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Private, tailored job tweets are latest Jobsite innovation to make job hunting easier

Jobsite today announce the launch of their Jobs by Twitter service to help make job hunting easier for Twitter’s thousands of UK users. Unlike many other jobs offerings currently on Twitter, Jobsite’s service (http://twitter.com/jobsitejobs) provides users with personal tweets listing only relevant jobs to them.
Keith Potts, Jobsite CEO, comments; ‘As a Twitter user I know how frustrating it is to get an endless stream of irrelevant jobs constantly being sent to you. This is why we’ve developed our service on Twitter, to enable users to select their own criteria for the jobs they want to receive, including location and salary. They can also choose the frequency that they want to receive new jobs, which will always be sent to them as private tweets.’
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“I lost my job in banking recently. As jobs in that industry are still difficult to come by, should I apply to do something else – I’ve heard that teaching is a good second career?”

Grace from London.

You need to take control of your own career, and not be influenced by others, says coach Lizzie Bentley-Bowers…

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Every manager needs a good PA, recession or not, and there are plenty of jobs out there if you know where to look. Sarah King started her career on a temporary contract and now works full-time at a large investment bank in the City.

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It’s the question on everyone’s lips, but renowned career coach, Denise Taylor, explains all in her latest book How to get a job in a recession.

1. Understand what you have to offer. Don’t be constrained by your CV. Start with a blank sheet, think about every job and what you liked/disliked about each. What were you good at, what really interested you, what sorts of tasks and activities made you lose track of time? Then think of specific examples that could be incorporated into your CV, covering letter and application.

2. Be very well organised. Know where everything is, both on paper and electronically. You will be able to reuse much of what you write so keep track of every application and your answers to competency-based questions. It’s going to save plenty of time as you can reuse what you wrote and your answers can be revised through a process of improvement.
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