Job search methods

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Worst methods for job search:

1.Using the Internet. 7% succes rate
2.Mailing out resumes at random. 7% Success rate
3. Answering ads in professional or trade journals 7% succes rate
4. Answering localnewspaper ads. 5-24% success rate
5. Going to private employment agencies or search firms. 5-28% success rate

Best Methods for job search:

1. Asking for job leads from: family members, freinds, people in the community,
career centers at your college/university from where you graduated. 33% success rate


2. Knocking on the door of anyy employer, factory or office that interests you, regardless
if there is a known vacancy or not. 47% success rate

3. Using the yellow pages in the phone book to ID subjects/fields, then calling on employers
to see if they have any positions. 69% success rate

4. In a group of other job hunters, a kind of 'job club', using the phones yellow pages to ID
subjects/fields that interest you, then calling potential employers in those fields for a postion
similar to your interest. 84% success rate

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