by Martin Yate
21. July 2009 10:14
Most job searches focus on job postings but there are big drawbacks to relying on this approach:
- Not all jobs are posted on commercial job banks
- Not all jobs are posted where you happen to be looking
- Not all jobs are posted
No one knows how many job banks there are, but include the commercial job banks, company job banks and headhunter job banks and it is in the millions; you can't possibly expect to find all the available opportunities given these numbers.
Now open your eyes to a new way to locate suitable companies, jobs and the hiring managers for those jobs.
Successful Job Search strategies focus on getting in conversations with the managers who can actually hire you; so the more target companies you can identify the more opportunities you have for getting into direct conversation with hiring managers. Try these four steps to add a new dimension to your job search strategy.
Step One. Find suitable target companies. Go to any job site and search job postings in your usual way, and then repeat your search with different parameters
- Widen search using minimal keywords and restrictions
- Search for postings of job titles that represent the people you interact with at work: look for the titles that come above, below and around yours. Save these postings
Using this approach will get you suitable postings as usual, a slew of companies who hire people like you (even if you didn't see a specific posting), and a mass of job postings that you can see no use for -- yet............Read More
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Martin Yate CPC
NY Times Business Bestseller
10 books in 25 languages
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