Headhunters Using Twitter – The New Productivity Check
As the search for new and productive employees companies turn to new and improved tools to find their next tallent perfect for their position. As the trend and the success of Twitter grow and becomes an even stronger marketing /connecting playground there is no doubt this will be the next step in headhunting.
Third party developers have long since created all the necessary tools to make this possible. The big question is what they will base their recruiting on. There are hundreds of web based tools dedicated to analyzing and chart up different measures of Generosity, Influence, FollowFriday etc. By using these tools, that is entirely based on the Twitter API, corporations can get really good information on a specific individual.
Is this good you say. Well, with Facebook they could monitor what we did in our spare time. With Twitter they can stay connected to our life 24/7. This could generate some discussions and debates whether it actually is healthy for the individual as it might take over our personalities to simply fit the mold of what they are after. The key here is really just to be yourself. Companies of course won’t base their entire decision on your productivity and creativity to express yourself, no matter what business you are in.
For a Web / Graphic designer for example it is the greatest way possible to make yourself a name. Use your creativity to brand your productivity so to say. Show off those skills you have but do it in a fancy matter. Create that extraordinary one page website showcasing your design and coding skills to the max and it could land you a nice job offer within soon.
So, what tools are most likely to be used when headhunting and what could really spot the recruit best suited for your job opening. Here’s a few interesting tools that is sure to be used in the process.
A tool that determines your rank among the Twitter community based on a lot of different factors. The tool will come in handy as it can plot your ranking in many different aspects. Such as “Country”, “City” etc. The tool also showcases the number of “Followers”, “Followings” and “Updates” along with the bio you have created to your Twitter Profile. This in turn will give any corporation a good view on who you are and what your productivity looks like. A great tool and is likely to be used in any recruiting.
A surprisingly well balanced tool with a few interesting factors to be taken in account when trying to find a recruit. This tool provides data about your followers mainly. How you progress in acquiring new followers. This can be a nice indicator on how well you progress and how well you are interfaced with the Twitter community. Followers is the main indicator how popular you are and how much valuable information you tweet about. I am sure this tool can be useful for some headhunters.
A huge factor in any ranking, it seems, is the quality of your tweets. How well fitted they are to the Twitter community and how many times it gets re-tweeted. To get re-tweeted is a measure how much your tweet might interest the rest of the Twitter community. The more it gets re-tweeted the more spotlight you will get. One can gain a lot of followers tweeting the right kind of stuff which makes this tool really useful. Recruiters can check in real time how your tweets are doing and how well you know your stuff. This tool is sure to be used by any headhunter.
4. TweetStats
One fo the more interesting tools for any headhunter. TweetStats provides astonishing data about “Tweets Per Hour”, “Tweets Per Month”, “Tweet Timeline” and “Reply Statistics”. This will be the one measure for your productivity. A headhunter can easily judge your productivity and creativity by the numbers provided here. They can also see who you are most collaborative with within the Twitter community. So it might be a good thing to team up with some really “geeky” well known information providers to up your standings a bit if they take this into account. A really useful tool which probably will be used.
One of the most used sources for “followlove” rankings. Even though the tool itself doesn’t tell much of the Twitters listed it still gives valuable information about the popularity of an individual. To be top ranked is like saying you have a lot of people recommending you to other people to follow you. What it means is you are popular in among the people you are tweeting with. The use of this tool would probably just be out of a “personality” perspective and would only speak to the more “relationship” based recruitment’s where personal chemistry is of great value.
6. Twitterholic
A pure statistical tool. It will show you statistics in forms of “Location”, “Website URL”, “Followers” , “Friends”, “Updates” and “Joined”. A nifty little tool to determine your “true” ranking when it comes to followers only. You will probably find the already well known people in the top. Such as CNN, Times etc. Twitter accounts that people follow due to their popularity factor in the real world. However, if dedicated you can score quite a high position declaring your superior productivity and popularity. Headhunters will probably not spend too much time or money analyzing this information, however they might take it in to some consideration when recruiting.
7. Monitter
A real time Twitter monitor. What it does is that it in real time can check for certain words (3 columns at once) and give you the result as it gets tweeted. A really useful tool if a headhunter wants to stay on top of your success or demise in real time. Everything or anyone can be tracked. A headhunter could even set up three individuals against each other to monitor their creativity and productivity. I am sure recruiters will love this tool as it gives them a chance to stay updated in ways otherwise impossible. This tool will probably be well used.
The one tool that is most likely to be used extensively by any headhunter or recruiter. Twitalyzer analyzes your entire twitter stream and plots it out into really interesting categories. “Influence”, “Signal”, “Generosity”, “Velocity” and “Clout”. All which provide invaluable data about an individual twitter. By using this tool a headhunter will be able to spot who is really “popular” or productive. Even how generous a specific individual is as far as how much he/she re-tweets other people. There’s even individual ranking columns which will put anyone dedicated enough in the spotlight. A great resource for any headhunter or recruiter. This will be a must use tool.
Wow! Great list of tools! I started participating in Follow Friday recently, but I didn’t know it was a tool too. I’m going to check out Twitterholic, it looks like it provides a lot of info. Sort of related, Tweet Later is a good one for a number of tasks.
–Aaron
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thanks for the list, buddy =)
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Aaron – Thank you! Glad you liked it. Checking out Twitterholic right now.
@bar0s – Anytime friend!
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Progressive & smart headhunters, yes.
But far too many will still just look at Twitter to find out who tweets during work, and disqualify them as goof-offs.
Of course, that can be good for the job-seeker, too – you probably wouldn’t want to work for such companies, anyway.
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Couldn’t agree more, I would imagine that is what the majority of headhunters would use the technology for, rather than to commend someone on the followers they have…
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It seems to me that the biggest question twitter statistics will answer is “what is he doing during work hours?” and for most active twitter users, the answer will be detrimental to a job search.
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