Do you struggle to capture all of the information that you want a potential employer to know about you in a 1-2 page CV? You want to include all of your relevant qualifications, work experience and training but you also want to include details about you as a person – to help you stand out from the other candidates and show how you’d fit with the organisation.

Great news – we’ve got a new tool that might help you with this common dilemma. When you apply for a job on Jobsite, you can now add links to your Twitter and LinkedIn profiles. This will help to enhance your application with additional information about you. For example, LinkedIn shows recommendations of you and your work from colleagues and clients, and can demonstrate your connections in your career and industry sector. Twitter can also help to showcase the people that you know and your thoughts on things happening in your sector, as well as showing more of your personality.

By enabling recruiters to take a quick look at your LinkedIn and Twitter profiles, it may also help to ensure that you don’t waste your time attending interviews for positions that you really aren’t suitable for. For example, if a recruiter can see how much you value time with your family they will realise that you won’t be happy in an organisation with an inflexible working structure. This means you can concentrate your effort on attending interviews with firms that think you’re the ideal candidate for them. Good news for you and good news for recruiters.

It’s completely optional to include links to these sites with your applications so, for example, if your Twitter account is more personal and you don’t think it has any relevance to your job hunt, then you don’t need to include a link to it. The choice is yours.

Let us know whether you think this will be a useful tool in your search for a new job and any other ideas you’ve got that would help you in your job hunt.

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