Ethics & Professional Responsibility: Twitter

As a student studying to become a human resources professional it is important to realize that not everything can be learned within a classroom. In order to help you bridge experience gap prior to graduation we’ve put together a list of the top 20 HR mentors for students to learn from on Twitter. This list of human resource professionals will help you learn and understand current HR related issues while further preparing you for a successful career within the human resources field. Make sure to follow and connect with them on Twitter.

You can’t avoid it. Students, parents, schools, businesses, non-profits, politicians, athletes, and celebrities are all tweeting. Many of you will be tweeting on behalf of a company or organization in the coming months, if you’re not already. That’s why it’s so important to remember the Internet is forever, and an inappropriate 140-character tweet could potentially break a career, before it even starts.

In the age of social media, we have countless outlets for job searching. Platforms such as LinkedIn are the first to come to mind, but can candidates use Twitter to find jobs as well? The HR teams at Twitter and NPR collaborated in the first live #NPRTwitterChat aimed at helping job seekers use social media as a job search tool.

Dan Finnigan loves Twitter. As the CEO of Jobvite, a six-year-old company in Burlingame, Calif., he sells software that enables companies to identify and source job candidates through their employees’ social networks. Jobvite works through Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, so those social media sites are essential to Finnigan’s business. But he also strongly believes that Twitter is gaining on LinkedIn as a great tool for finding employment.