Twitter - HackMD

--- tags: employment slideOptions: transition: slide theme: sky --- # Twitter --- If you use it properly, Twitter can be a very powerful tool to help you land your first job and build your career as a software developer. --- ## 10-step Twitter programme --- ### Step 1: Decide on your audience ---- Your first audience is the rest of your cohort. --- ### Step 2: Understand what is of value to them ---- It is the same thing that is useful to you, i.e. any good resources about this week's learning objectives, insights into how you've understood the material and so on. --- ### Step 3: Find people to follow ---- Start with your first audience, i.e. your own cohort, then add potential sources of value: FAC speakers, mentors and staff, people whose tutorials, blogs and resources you have found useful, industry figures you admire, and people or companies you want to work for. --- ### Step 4: Treat Twitter as your 'brand' homepage ---- Be conscious about what you post. It all adds to your personal brand, and builds towards the career you want to get into. --- ### Step 5: #s and @s ---- The Twitterverse lives on #s and @s. The more you use them, the more that relevant people will see what you're sharing. The developer community is very active and supportive, so a little goes a long way. --- ### Step 6: Understand and cultivate your expertise ---- You are an expert in your own journey in learning to code, but this is not your only relevant expertise and your current cohort is not your only potential audience. ---- You are an expert in learning to code for the first time and in getting a place at Founders and Coders. There are plenty of people who might value that expertise. ---- In the next few months you should aim to become an expert in finding, applying for and getting your first job. There are plenty more people who might find your insights at each stage of that process useful and inspiring. ---- Start thinking about one area of technical expertise that you might want to cultivate in a future job and spend time getting more knowledgeable about it. --- ### Step 7: Support others ---- The easiest thing to do is to retweet other cohortees' tweets, with a genuine interest in promoting what they've got to say. In due course, people might be writing on dev.to, Medium or elsewhere; it is really nice to promote their work. ---- This extends to the wider community - people are more likely to share your work if you are actively promoting the work of others. --- ### Step 8: Learn to spot value ---- Learn to spot the difference between signal and noise. Get in the habit of tweeting whenever you spot something that is both valuable and relevant. --- ### Step 9: Be conscious about who you follow and unfollow ---- If you find that your Twitter feed is filling up with distractions, unfollow the people putting it there. ---- Twitter is a powerful career development tool but only if you use it in a single-minded way. If you love everything else Twitter has to offer, then create a new developer account for your professional persona. --- ### Step 10: Shift your expertise, grow your audience ---- Over the next few weeks, shift your emphasis from tweeting about the week's learning, to how to get into FAC, to job hunting, to your chosen area of technical expertise. Keep it relevant to your audience. See what works in growing your audience and getting the attention of the people that should matter to you most: possible future employers. ---- Engage with people directly. Quite often, well known developers will use Twitter to ask questions (to inform the articles they're writing or just for general interaction). Get involved! --- ## A note from Alex FAC18 > The content in the hackmd might scare people off who don't think they have a huge amount of valuable/original resources to put out to people. It's what put me off for so long but using twitter is as much about tracking your own progress and demonstrating that to others as it is about sharing resources --- ## This week's activity - Create a dedicated Twitter account - Edit your bio, include @founderscoders - Follow relevant people and each other, unfollow distractions - Write a tweet about something you learned or achieved today - Find and retweet a resource posted by someone else, with or without comment - Create a Twitter plan with your partner: - When will you post? - What will you post about? - How does it add to you brand? --- ### Good luck! --- ### Resources - [How to get a job from Twitter](https://www.savethestudent.org/student-jobs/how-to-get-a-job-using-twitter.html) - [Using Twitter to search for jobs](https://www.learnhowtobecome.org/career-resource-center/job-hunting-on-twitter/) - [More advice for job hunting](https://www.job-hunt.org/IT-job-search/twitter-for-IT-job-search.shtml) - [Who to follow on Twitter](https://www.google.co.uk/search?ei=ubApX9GfMIOM8gKwtqLYBg&q=who+to+follow+on+twitter+tech+uk&oq=who+to+follow+on+twitter+tech+uk) - [People following FAC](https://twitter.com/founderscoders/following) - [FAC alumni on Twitter](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/2/d/1TMyAQGvPB2Pb_8hyAC0w1P0OE9cxHtrooQ5Yc5nXW9c/edit#gid=1286354964)

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