Best Buy Calls Twitter a Job Qualification

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Need a job? Got at least 250 followers on Twitter? Then apply at Best Buy! No, really…if you want a senior manager position, having 250 followers on Twitter is a qualification.

A recent job posting on Best Buy Co Inc.’s Web site for a Senior Manager – Emerging Media Marketing position based out of the company’s corporate headquarters in Richfield, Minn. listed two preferred job qualifications: a graduate degree and 250+ followers on Twitter.
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For a "Senior Manager – Emerging Media Marketing", that requirement kinda makes sense. Twitter is still stupid though.
 
I foresee the graduate degree requirement being dropped. To be in marketing and sales, you just need to know how to lie, and not get caught; or if caught, blame someone else. I think that's a two year course sequence for a marketing degree at most universities.
 
So? It's for an "emerging media marketing" position. That's like saying "lololololol knowing about bewbs is a requirement for this job posting for a mammogram technitian11!!1!!!!!"
 
I could certainly see where this would be beneficial in such a position. However, expected? I can't really see that, at least not in 2009.
 
.... just getting those final papers signed for my 100 acres in the middle of nowhere Montana .....
 
This is best buy, what else should we have expected?
 
Making it a qualification to be a retard on a privately owned website? How lame is that? Couldn't they have thought a better way to increase traffic on twitshit?
 
How many of those responding to this could get more than 250 followers on Twitter? The job is clearly going to be about using Twitter for marketing, and they probably realized that nobody in-house had any idea how to do it right.

Sure enough, http://twitter.com/Bestbuy has only 4700 followers. They evidently feel the need to do a lot better than that.
 
@BestBuy: You're on the same path as Circuit City.







oh wait.. I'm not twittering/tweeting/twatering/wtfbbqing
 
I haven't read the article, but isn't it more like the guy has 250 people to vouch for him as he applies for the position, rather than just the having 250 followers?

"well if 250 people say this guy's good, who are we to deny him the position?" is what I'm thinking.
 
Bestbuys employment practices have always been shady and suspect what else is new

In other news sky blue and grass green MORE AT 11!
 
Just another ridiculous job posting from another company that probably has no intent to hire anyone at all. Making obscene job requirements and then claiming that no american can meet them is a pre-requisite for obtaining H1-B visas.
 
250 followers x $1 per follower bribe = senior management position

May as well prove you're adept at cheating early.
 
Lets see, they are looking to hire a Senior Manager for a Marketing position and want someone familiar with what has become a marketing tool that a lot of companies have started to use?

How dare them!!!

get over yourselves people, the requirement is relevant to the position. its not like they require it to be a register jockey.
 
No leezard you don't understand. We get enough advertisements already. These motherfuckers take every opportunity to interfere and try to push their shit on us. It gets old. We don't need twitter shills now too. Anyone who wants that job is a tool anyway.
 
Elios said:
Bestbuys employment practices have always been shady and suspect what else is new

In other news sky blue and grass green MORE AT 11!
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you totally just made me think of "High Tide and Green Grass", actually I have that record in my room, now I really want to listen to it, pity my room is halfway across the country.
 
BallerX said:
No leezard you don't understand. We get enough advertisements already. These motherfuckers take every opportunity to interfere and try to push their shit on us. It gets old. We don't need twitter shills now too. Anyone who wants that job is a tool anyway.
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Ummm.....then dont follow them on twitter?


And deff, anyone who wants that job in this kick ass economy is a tool :rolleyes:
 
"Hey hunny, got a promotions today.. some Senior Marketing Manager position or something. I was like 'huh'? But they said I was well qualified cause I can type 5 tweets per minute, which is better than Dave's 3 tweets per minute.. so he got shitcanned."
 
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