Real Words

I am always on the lookout for new freelance job leads. I like to know what’s being offered and what the average expectations are of the people who are hiring freelance writers and bloggers today. I also like to have a steady stream of new opportunities available to me.

I typically use the same few resources when looking for these job leads. I use Craigslist under both writing jobs and writing gigs. I use Problogger since I’m primarily looking for blogging work. And I use Deb Ng’s daily list of leads. However, I also like to play around with new options for finding work as these options emerge.

One option that’s emerged recently is TwitterJobSearch. Through this site you can enter a keyword for the job that you want to find and it will provide you with a list of such jobs that have been posted to Twitter. You can sort the results by date or relevance.

I have tried to use this tool to find blogging jobs and it doesn’t seem to be particularly useful. I’ve entered “blog”, “blogger” and “blogging” as my keywords and yet most of the jobs that come up don’t seem directly relevant to hiring a blogger. However, I’ve seen more success for general writing jobs when typing in either “writing” or “writers”.

I’m curious - is anyone else out there using TwitterJobSearch to find freelance writing / blogging jobs? Has it been successful for you? Is it any better than searching Twitter directly?