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Getting Hired:
Successful Job Search Info

From What Color is Your Parachute? Read and grade yourself. Is your present job hunting process working? If not read the five best ways to hunt for a job.

Five Worst Ways to Look for a Job:

  • Looking for employers' job-postings on the Internet. 4% to 10% success rate.
  • Mailing out resumes to employers at random. 7% success rate.
  • Answering ads in processional or trade journals, appropriate to your field. 7% success rate.
  • Answering local newspaper ads. 5% to 24% success rate.
  • Going to private employment agencies or search firms for help. 5% to 28% success rate.

Five Best Ways to Hunt for a Job:

  • 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 rate.
  • By yourself, using the phone book's Yellow Pages to identify subjects or fields of interest to you in the town or city where you want to work, and then visiting the employers listed in that field, to ask if they are hiring for the type of tasks you can do, and do well.
    59% success rate.
  • Asking for job-leads from: family members, friends, people in the community, staff at career centers - especially at your local community college or the high school or college where you graduated -- using your links on LinkedIn or from other social networks on the Internet. It's called networking. 80% success rate.
  • In a job support group - a group with about seven other job hunters - identifying subjects or fields of interest to you in the town or city where you are, and then visiting the employers listed in that field (the Yellow Pages, again, will help), to ask if they are hiring for the type of position you can do, and do well. 84% success rate.
  • Doing a life-changing job-hunt. 86% success rate.

Reference: Bolles, Richard N. What Color Is Your Parachute? 2011 A Practical Manual for Job-hunters and Career-changers. New York: Ten Speed Pr, 2010. Print.


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