Tweet Your Way to Work

In a tight job market, it's tempting to trumpet one's experience in Dickensian detail, but we live in a fast-paced world where book deals are landed from brief "tweets" and status updates are considered a reasonable way to stay in touch.

So, it's fair to say that one way to stand out is to be briefer than the competition.

That's the concept behind a recent Craigslist posting that could only exist in our crazy, mixed up world. According to TechCrunch, the job calling for a "Twitter Genius" in Greenwich Village, requires an application submitted entirely 140-character tweets.

In simple terms, the unnamed company is looking for a social media marketer for some sort of e-commerce startup.

"I need someone who tweets in their sleep and updates their fb status before calling their mom on Mother’s Day," the description reads, according to TechCrunch. In other words, not just a Twitter Genius, but a Twitter Addict.

No resume, references or old-school "Job Objectives" required here. Instead, the successful applicant must answer six questions in tweet form, as follows:

1) Email me two tweets. The first should be about your experience. The second should by why you’re perfect for this job. If you exceed twitter’s allotted character count, you’re done.

2) Email me your Twitter name in link form (e.g. http://www.twitter.com/YOURNAME)

3) Tell me how many followers you have and how many people you follow.

4) Tell me who’s the best person you follow and why (in tweet form).

5) Tell me what’s the best way to get more followers (in tweet form).

6) Specific salary requirement.

If there was ever any doubt that this is an employer's market, this confirms it!

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