- Posted by liammclennan on October 14, 2009
There has always been an employment back-channel. Maybe there was a time when people would pick up the phone when they needed to fill or find a job. More recently people might have sent an IM in that situation. But now it seems that twitter is the medium on which employment transactions occur. A person loses their job, tweets about it, and has a new job within minutes. Or a company is looking to hire, so one of their employees tweets a link to the role and receives qualified applications and recommendations. It’s better for everyone; except the recruitment oligopolists who can no longer charge to be the meeting place between recruit and recruiter. The recruitment back-channel is still about networking. Simply being on twitter will not help you. The only difference is that the medium is now electronic, efficient and nearly instant.
