London, UK – 25 January 2010: With nearly half of all companies turning to social media for recruitment in 2010, TweetDeck and TwitJobSearch have teamed up to provide the ultimate dedicated job seeker platform. JobDeck (
http://tweetdeck.com/jobdeck.) - brings together the premier social media desktop client,
TweetDeck, with
TwitJobSearch the first real-time job search engine. The new product makes it event easier to search social media for job offers, track the latest trends in job hunting, and connecting with contacts across Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and more.
With over 400 million individuals globally engaging with online social media products, the shift by companies to engage with this channel makes it essential for job seekers to re-think their career management tools.
"We are absolutely thrilled to be working with the makers of the best social media application, TweetDeck, to help reinvent the recruitment process," said Howard Lee, CEO of WorkDigital. "Recruitment is quickly evolving and better tools to manage this shift are an essential part of any career management suite. Just as we early members of the LinkedIn developer platform, we are working with world-class product developers to build world-class products."
The JobDeck product allows professionals to
- track recruitment news (via leading bloggers and HR professionals),
- access data from the only global real-time job-search engine,
- integrate LinkedIn for your professional contacts
- preview short URLs from the comfort of JobDeck
- update their Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn status and track updates from their industry peers,
- follow real-time updates from leading professional blogs and Twitter accounts,
- add, create and manage Twitter Lists
- avoid Twitter spam with TweetDeck's spam button
- make use of dozens of other essential tools all from one simple client.
From the TweetDeck Website:
TwitJobSearch scours twitter; indexing tweets that are jobs, and filtering out the rest, thus providing jobseekers with the tools necessary to find meaningful, relevant job opportunities amongst the noise.
TweetDeck and TwitJobSearch have teamed up to provide you with a dedicated JobDeck. This makes it even easier to search for jobs, as well as staying in touch with what's happening now, and connecting you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook and more.
About WorkDigital Ltd
WorkDigital is a London-based natural language search technology company that has built a suite of award-winning career management tools that have been featured in BusinessWeek, WIRED, the FT, the New York Times, the Guardian, and hundreds of other publications.
http://twitjobsearch.com
About TweetDeck
TweetDeck is an Adobe AIR desktop Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace application. It interfaces with the Twitter API to allow users to send and receive tweets and view profiles. It is the most popular Twitter application with a 19% market share as of June 2009, following only the official Twitter.com website for posting new status updates. An iPhone version was released on the 19th June 2009. www.tweetdeck.com
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