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This Blog was moved to a WordPress url and can now be found at http://eelcoscheltinga.wordpress.com/ I started using Wordpress because it has more and better content management options. It is more user friendly and most of all it is better geared towards supporting my online presence since Wordpress Blogs can be included in your Linkedin profile. Any articles you publish on your private Wordpress blog will also show up in your linkedin profile. Just like your SlideShare app in Linkedin this information is exposed to you readers and Linkedin Network, which strenghtens your personal brand and generates more traffic to you articles or your (brand)name.

First Twitter Recruitment App

The first job application for twitter is there. At least, as far as I know the first. Tweepjob. Both for candidates and recruiters or actually Tweepseekers and Tweephunters. You simply place a hashtag and 'tweephunt' or 'tweepseek' in your Tweet and Tweepjob pickes up the data and puts it on Tweepjob. Tweepseekers are those who are looking to find a job and Tweephunters are those that search for candidates. Pretty obvious, I guess. Tweepjob has been intended to bring companies and candidates together as with other recruitment tools. At a positive match between hunter and seeker the interested follower automatically receives a tweet from Tweepjob to indicate that there may be an opportunity for either one. Tweepjob origins in this difficult time where also IT unemployment has become a phenomenon. The use of Twitter and awareness of the API's by developers has completed this tool. Currently it is still a beta version. Simple but efficient, this can be a good app when people use it en masse and the matches come true. The massive use of Twitter does not seem to be a problem now lets see the matches that come about, I'm curious! I have not tested it yet. I will try and see what happens by placing a #tweethunt for a coldfusion developer in Den Haag, The Netherlands. Feel free to place a #tweetseek and don't hesitate to see if the match takes place.

this is what happens so far... the tweephunt:


and indeed it comes through on tweepjob as follows:



Now lets wait for a match to come through, so far nothing yet. Or am I doing something wrong?