Digital Literacy & How To Job Hunt In The Twittersphere

NPR All Things Considered - "It's not whom you know, or even what you know, but how you say it — 140 characters at a time.

As often the case on my way home I listened to NPR's All Things Considered and caught a segment about job hunting with Twitter, why and how people Tweet to get in front of the virtual employment lines. At the same time, innovative Twitter job boards like TweetyMyJobs.com are popping up, the new "Monster" job posting sites. If they want to be successful using the Twitter route to employment job seekers need to master digital literacy, internet writing skills
• fine-tuning & packaging your resume into a 140-word Tweet, the Twitter way
• identifying valuable & trustworthy connections on the Web
• re-tweeting to keep that network of connections alive & get that virtual "foot in the door"
In my mind, there isn't a more compelling example than today's unemployment scene to underscore the need for teaching students 21st Century, digital literacy skills. You can read a transcript of this story or listen it by clicking on How To Job Hunt In The 'Twittersphere'


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