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sharing-economy) if you want to explore this kind of pickup work.
9. Asking for job-leads. This method works 33% of the time. With this
method you ask family members, friends, and people you know in the
community (or on LinkedIn) if they know of any place where
someone with your talents and background is being sought. It is a
simple question: do you know of any job vacancies at the place where
you work—or elsewhere? Using this method, you have an almost five
times better chance of finding a job, than if you had just sent out your
resume.
10. Knocking on the door of any employer, office, or manufacturing
plant. This method works 47% of the time. It works best with small
employers (25 or less employees) as you might have guessed.
Sometimes you blunder into a place where a vacancy has just
developed. One job-hunter knocked on the door of an architectural
office at 11 a.m. His predecessor (for he did get hired there) had just
quit at 10 a.m. that morning. If you try this method and nothing turns
up, you broaden your definition of small employer to those with 50 or
less employees. With this method you have an almost seven times
better chance of finding a job than if you had just depended on your
resume.
11. Using the Yellow Pages. This method works 65% of the time. It
involves going through the Yellow Pages of your local phone book,
or actually, the Index to those Yellow Pages, so you can identify
subjects or fields of interest to you. Then you go from the Index to the
actual Yellow Pages and look up names of organizations or
companies in those fields, in that town or city where you want to
work. You call them, set up an appointment, go visit them, and
explore whether or not they are hiring for the kind of work you do, or
the position you are looking for. Of course, in this post-2008 period,
it’s a lot harder to get employers to consent to see you—in large
companies, anyway. Still, you will note that you have a nine times
better chance of finding a job with this method, than if you had just
depended on your resume.
Well, that’s it. That’s The Traditional Approach, split up into its eleven
parts. These job-hunting methods were not created equal. Some methods,
as we have seen, have a pretty good track record, and therefore will repay