On: X officially takes on LinkedIn with its new job posting feature

[upon_drumhead]

What’s the value add for using X as a platform? Do people job hunt there already?

[muglug → upon_drumhead]

I got my current job by DMing someone on Twitter two and a half years ago.

[_delirium → upon_drumhead]

In academia it's pretty common to advertise job openings on Twitter. In addition to posting them everywhere else, but Twitter is a good place to find them in my experience (more than LinkedIn). Especially because they often get rewteeted & quote-retweeted into networks of relevant people who might not have been directly reached by the initial posting.

Not sure if this is common with other types of jobs, but I wouldn't be that surprised.

[nprateem → upon_drumhead]

It makes it easier to find work if you're a right-wing bigot

[rvz → nprateem]

Assuming you have read the guidelines, don't be silly with such swipes. You know that not everyone on Twitter is a so-called 'right-wing bigot' as you're trying to project.

> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. [0]

> Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[samtheprogram → nprateem]

Or you can find work with sane people who don't think anyone on Twitter is a right wing bigot.

[breakyerself → samtheprogram]

There's no right wing bigots on Twitter?