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2018 – Best and Worst Job Search Methods
Don't waste your time looking for employment...the best job search methods will save you time and provide excellent job opportunities!
The Five Worst ways to find a job…
- Using public online job boards (4%-10% success)
- Mailing out resumes to employers at random (7% success)
- Answering ads in professional or trade journals, appropriate to your field (7% success)
- Answering local newspaper ads (5-24% success) increasing as salary decreases
- Going to private employment agencies or search firms for help (5-28% success) increasing as salary decreases
The Five Best ways to find a job…
- Asking for job leads from: family members, friends, people in the community, staff at career centers – especially at your local community college or high school or college where you graduated (33% success)
- Knocking on the door of any employer, factory or office that interests you, whether they are known to have a vacancy or not (47% success)
- Using websites to identify subjects or fields of interest to you in the town or city where you want to work, and then calling up the employers listed in that field to ask if they are hiring for the type of position you can do, and do well (69% success)
- In a group, with other job hunters, performing step 3 (84% success)
- Doing a Life-Changing Job-Hunt (86% success). Bolles details how to do this in “What Color is Your Parachute? This requires you to do thorough homework on yourself.
Leonard A Deane Jr.
