Old Style Job Hunt Versus New Style Job Hunt - Which One is 12 Times More Effective?

The old-style traditional job hunt sets out to match your resume with an existing job. The new style job hunt is a life changing enterprise and sets the job hunter on an exploration. The latter is 12 times more effective getting you a job than the old way of sending out resumes, hoping to land a job like a fisherman trying to snag a fish with a bare hook.

Old-style job hunts use the five worst ways to get employment. Here they are:

I. Trying to get a job through private employment agencies, research firms. Effective rate: 5 to 28%.

II. Working the local newspaper ads for openings. The higher the salary for a job, the less likely you'll find it in the newspaper. Success rate: 5 to 24%.

III. Answering ads in professional and trade journals in your field. Rate of success: 7%.

IV. Shotgun mailings of your resume employers at random. Success rate: 7%.

V. And the worst way is to use the Internet to find a job. There are 40,000,000+ resumes floating around on the Internet. Success rate: 4%.

Here are the five best new style methods to find a job. The person (and hopefully that's you) who uses these methods is open to change, a new lifestyle and the rewards of exploration.

I. Going about the job hunt using as many methods as possible to explore as many options as possible even if that means knocking on doors and cold calling on the telephone. Success rate: 86%.

II. Working with a group of other job hunters who use the Yellow Pages to call up employers listed in a particular field and asking them if they're hiring. Rate of success: 84%.

III. Using the technique above to identify jobs in selected industries and calling employers in that field for possible openings, but in this case, working by yourself. Effective rate: 69%.

IV. Identifying employers, offices or specific factories that you'd like to work in (whether they have known vacancies or not) and physically knocking on the door, introducing yourself and asking for a job. Success rate: 47%.

V. Talking to family members, people in the community, your friends and staff at career centers especially in your high school or college where you graduated and asking them all for job leads. Fulfillment rate: 33%.

Of course, use as many of these methods, regardless of their success rate, that you can, knowing that there will be an accumulative effect in your favor.

The difference between old-style and new style job hunting is how you go about it. The most successful job hunts are done by people who are willing to use new style techniques, embrace life changing opportunities and get off their duffs. You can do that as well.

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