Whether you are already a Twitter guru, or are just beginning to curiously test its waters, here are the best resources for finding your legal dream job on Twitter, with a bit of general Twitter advice as well.
General Twitter Advice
If you’re not yet on Twitter, here are my short and sweet tips:
Sign up at Twitter.com; fill out the 140-character bio, use your real name as your username; include a good photo; design a free and easy professional background design at Twitbacks.com; use bit.ly to shorten links for your tweets; download Seesmic Desktop to manage your Twitter feeds and posts from your desktop; and add yourself to Twellow.com and to JD Scoop’s list of lawyers and legal professionals.
Then add value (news posts, advice, resources, etc) to your followers, and remember that all your tweets are searchable on Google. Learn about the many ways that lawyers and legal professionals can use Twitter in Robert Ambrogi’s post “Tweet 16: 16 Ways Lawyers Can Use Twitter.” For further basic Twitter guidance, read Shane Richmond’s one-page step-by-step guide to getting started on Twitter.
Legal Job Searching on Twitter
- Search for “legal,” “law,” “attorney” or “paralegal” on TwitterJobSearch.com and see recent (down to the second) posted legal jobs.
- Find legal jobs by following the Twitter feeds. Please note that all of the Twitter feeds posted are for FREE job and career boards. However, you may need to sign up for free accounts on Monster.com, LawJobs.com, or Careerbuilder.com in order to access some of the posted jobs. In addition to “following” these feeds on Twitter, you can also subscribe to their RSS feeds, and have the feeds sent to your Google Reader account (set one up to follow news, blogs, and other RSS feeds), so that you will never miss a tweeted job posting.
- by Leora Maccabee on June 4, 2009
Downloaded 6/8/2009 from http://lawyerist.com/2009/06/04/land-your-dream-job-on-twitter/#more-2449
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