Twitter's Redesign Makes the Platform Ripe for Recruitment

The Society for Human Resource Management recently found that more than 75% of companies use social networking sites to recruit job candidates — and recruiters are often going beyond professionally oriented platforms like LinkedIn.

66% of recruiters use Facebook for discovering talent, and 54% of recruiters turn to Twitter when vetting candidates. With Twitter’s redesign, that number is likely to increase

Twitter is already an inherently ripe social network for recruiting because of its huge professional audience and the unrestricted access it offers members to one another. New features aim to make the network even more interactive, providing plenty of opportunities for job seekers to up their game.

If you’re part of the 44% of Twitter's 974 million registered users who have never tweeted, you may want to reconsider that decision -– Twitter is emerging as one of the best vehicles for landing your dream job.

Here are four tips for making the most of Twitter’s redesign in your job search.
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