An award for the quintessential college, career, and job sites.
Quintessential Careers honors one career or job site each issue of
QuintZine
with the Quintessential Careers Site Award in recognition of
quintessential efforts in helping job-seekers.
Twitter is at this writing the hottest, most-talked-about social-networking utility of the moment.
Part of the cachet of Twitter seems to be an "About Us" section that really does not
explain what Twitter is. If you're "cool," you just know what it is. So, we turn to
Wikipedia for a definition: Twitter is a: "social networking and micro-blogging service
that allows users to send "updates" (or "tweets"; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long)
to the Twitter web site, via the Twitter web site, short message service (SMS), instant messaging,
or a third-party application, such as Twitterrific or Facebook."
Relevance to the job search? Writes Deb Dib at Job-Hunt.org:
"If you are managing your career, conducting an active job search, want to raise your visibility, love
to share information, want to build community for yourself and/or company, or just have to have
new Web 2.0 stuff, you need to know about Twitter."
(Read more.)
No cost to job-seekers.
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