Top 14 Twitter Lists for Job Search

From Susan Ireland's Job Lounge

Twitter Lists are new to the scene and they're popping up like mushrooms. How can these Lists help with your job search? And which ones should you be following?

What are Twitter Lists?
Twitter Lists are timelines of tweets that you can choose to follow. You can make your own List, or follow someone else's. Many Lists are by topic, such as sports, politics, dating, and -- you guessed it -- job search. A topic may easily have hundreds of Lists to choose from, some of which represent a specialty within that topic.

Simply put, using Twitter Lists is a way to organize how you view tweets. It's an easy way to see what's being said about a topic, even if you're not personally following all the people in the List.

A job seeker might follow one or more Lists containing tweets about job search, resumes, interviewing, recruiting, and other job-related topics.

How to Follow a Twitter List
The best way to get the hang of how Twitter Lists work is to start following a List and see if it's useful for your job search. You can start with my List: SusanIreland/Resumes, composed of people I personally select to be on the List because they offer good tweets about resumes and job search.

Here's how to follow my List:

1. Go to SusanIreland/Resumes.


2. Click the "Follow this list" button, which is just under the name of the List at the top of the page.

You can see activity in that List at any time from your Twitter homepage by clicking on @SusanIreland/resumes under the Lists category in your right nav bar.

Now that you know how to follow a List, check out:

My Top 14 Twitter Lists for Job Search

AlisonDoyle/job-search
ASCCareerOffice/career-stuff
GayleHoward/careers-sector
IUPUI_LHSI/career
JobHuntOrg/interns-new-grads
JobHuntOrg/jobs
Keppie_Careers/career-collective
MalloryBower/career
resumeservice/career-experts
SteviePuckett/career-leaders
SusanIreland/resumes
WalterAkana/career-pros-general
WSJcareers/career-news

If you know of another job search List you want to share, tell us about it as a comment to this post.

If you want me to be considered including your tweets in the SusanIreland/Resume List, send me (@susanireland) a Direct Message on Twitter. (Note: You must be one of my followers for me to respond to you.)

More about Twitter
Here are a few more posts about using Twitter for your job search:

Your Twitter Homepage Is a Dynamic Resume
38 Job Search Hashtags on Twitter
7 Do's and Don'ts for Twitter Job Hunt
Twitter Your Way to a New Job