Twitterjobsearch

Had an email from Holly S yesterday announcing the official launch of www.Twitterjobsearch.com, launched by Bill Fischer and the guys over at Workhound. After all the twitter buzz that has been going on for a while now it was inevitable that a recruitment application was going to arise.

It really does look like it interrogates the information available through twitter pretty intelligently and delivers relevant search on basic terms. In the world of long tail search and a concentration on good quality candidate conversion will it stack up? A few commentators have suggested that it's nothing more than an aggregation tool that offers the same thing they do but through a very "now" medium. Whether it will actually start to pick up jobs by word of mouth and referers is another question, if that's what it evolves into then great.

Having had a play with it some of the results are great and very accurate, particularly in the sales sector for some reason. Results in Ops and a few other areas came backl with all sorts of things and in locations I wasn't doing a search for. That said it's a very new tool and who hasn't launched a site that has a few issues in the early days?

The idea that this could also pull in feeds from other sources is perhaps the most interesting. As i've stated before getting something to work that really does have an overview of all the social media avaialble and that pulls in feeds from every area will give the jobseeker an excellent tool.

What are the pitfalls? Well, it's a scammer or hacker's dream, if you can post on there with fake jobs linked through a tinyurl link which diguises the site's identity the whole thing is potentially open to abuse.

In all it's a great idea and once people start using it and retweeting jobs to friends and colleagues it could really take off.