{"id":5781,"date":"2013-12-05T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/creator\/?p=3645"},"modified":"2020-03-30T19:09:47","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T23:09:47","slug":"want-job-probably-use-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/ideas\/professional-development\/want-job-probably-use-twitter","title":{"rendered":"Want a job? You should probably use Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"

With all its downsides<\/a>, social media has proven to be a life-changing medium<\/a>. While there are seemingly countless examples of how social networks have sparked romances and friendships, I\u2019ve found that the impact social media leaves on your career isn\u2019t given enough attention.<\/p>\n

My story alone isn\u2019t too wild: My past two roles are tied directly to my tweeting habits, but after a bit of research, I discovered that this is more common than you might think.<\/p>\n

\"TWEET_ChrisVisions\"Illustration by: Chris Visions<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

According to Courtney Boyd Myers<\/a>, the founder of Audience.io<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I was very lucky to get my job at The Next Web through Twitter. When I saw The Next Web was hiring, I tweeted at @Zee to “Hire Me!” Then I flew across the pond to meet him for a cup of tea. He was keen and told me to fly back to New York City and be their East Coast Editor. I’ve been Tweeting quite a lot ever since!<\/p>\n

I’ve also done a fair bit of hiring through Twitter. I’ve met a number of freelance writers on Twitter who’ve joined our team at audience.io<\/a> and my current London-based marketing strategist was the first person to welcome me over Twitter when I moved to London. Little did she know that one year later we’d be working together!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Makeshift<\/a> founder Stef Lewandowski<\/a> shares a similarly powerful story:<\/p>\n

Paul Birch, now my co-founder at Makeshift added me to a Twitter list called “Suggest we meet”. I had no idea who he was. I certainly had no idea that he was one of the Birch brothers of Bebo fame. I was looking through how people had listed me one day, spotted it and thought “why not?” and we arranged to meet up for a coffee. Twitter is a serendipity accelerator. If you use it in an open “yes, and” kind of way it can lead you to all sorts of unexpected places. Like starting a company a couple of years after a chance encounter like this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rakesh Kumar<\/a>, the\u00a0Content Head at SocialSamosa<\/a>, replied to a tweet that changed his career:<\/p>\n

It was December 2011 where I saw this blog named SocialSamosa.com<\/a> start up; it was focussed towards covering the Indian social media industry. I was already deep in neck with my social media ambitions by then and I used to follow the blog closely.<\/p>\n

In January 2012, Ankita Gaba, cofounder of Social Samosa was looking for people who can write on the portal. So she tweeted this out<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I thought it would be a nice way to get some word out for myself by writing on a blog that was fast catching up on popularity.\u00a0And thus I began writing for Social Samosa. Soon afterwards, I was offered to join full time and today, I am one of the core team members. It’s been a long ride since then and the journey has been awesome to say the least.<\/p>\n

I still can’t fathom where I would have been if not for THAT one tweet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Given the subject matter, I\u2019ll let the tweets do the talking:<\/p>\n

\"job\"job \"job \"job<\/p>\n

The moral of this story is a simple one: put yourself out there and you just might be heard by the right people. Say nothing and that\u2019s what you\u2019ll get.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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