Recruiting via Twitter

I came upon an interesting article earlier today about companies using Twitter to post job openings.

I think it's an interesting concept, and a natural extension of networking and social networking sites, but I found the application, twitterjobsearch.com, a bit difficult to use.

As far as I can tell, you can filter by location and job type. Searching on 'Minnesota' got some targeted results, but also results from Atlanta, Houston, and the East Coast.

What I found more difficult was that the tweets weren't in a consistent format and many of them were missing information I'd find valuable - namely job title and location. Combined with the seemingly ineffective search, I think you'd spend a lot of time looking at postings that don't interest you.

An interesting idea that will likely improve over time.