(Summary Part II) - What Color Is Your Parachute?

Notice - 96% of all job seekers found their job offline
Reason 1: everyone and their system is posting their resume online, too.
Reason 2: you should expect tens or hundreds of rejections before a successful response.
You risk having you self-esteem crushed if you expect quick or mostly positive responses.

to succeed in your job search, you should avoid misplaced energy by focusing your energy where it helps most.

[notice the advice is for general jobs. IT jobs might do better on the internet]

Worse ways
Post on the internet: 4%
mailing out resumes at random: 7% [estimated one jobb for every 1400 resumes sent]
Answering ads in trade journals: 7%
Answering ads in the local newspaper: 5%-24%
Going to private employment agencies: 5%-28%

Best ways
Ask for leads from friends, family, people at the community, people in the local career center, etc - 33%
Knocking on the doors of every employer that interests you, whether they are known to have vacancies or not - 47%
Using the yellow pages to identify relevant employers, then call them to find out if they are looking for employees - 69%
Using the yellow pages in a group of job seekers - 84%

Conslusion: rely on more than one method, and make sure you use at least one active method in your job search.

Employers prefer to hire in a different way than employees want to get hired. Their preference is:
1. Hire from within - promote a fulltime or a parttime employee, or hire a contractor.
2. Using proof - seeing a proof of the prospective employee work
3. By reference of a best friend or a business collegue
4. Using an agency they trust
5. Using an ad they placed
6. using a resume

Many employers want you to find them - they prefer you email them from their website or to an ad they placed, rather than read a resume you posted.