Most jobseekers have read and heard a lot about the importance of social media in today’s employment search.  One of the heavy hitters is Twitter, and now a beta program is making finding a job on the site easier and more efficient.

TwitterJobSeach.com allows you to enter simple search terms – executive assistant New York, marketing in Maine and so on and so forth – then displays all the posts found on Twitter that may contain the lead to the job you hunting for. But how effective a tool is it really?  Savvy Talent staff decided to put the new search engine to the test.

Inputting a fairly common search term “executive assistant, Dallas” returned hundreds of results. Many were tweets from job boards around the Internet but that does save time hitting every job site on the Web looking for your search terms.

A general search was not that accurate; why did a secretary’s position in London come up? There was no mention of Dallas or indeed the Lone Star State itself on the Tweet or the Twitter account it came from.  Using the advanced search options helped narrow the field a little and was not too difficult to navigate.

All in all TwitterJobSearch is a useful little application to add to your arsenal of jobseeking  tools but should be used as just a part of your overall quest to find employment, not the only site you check.