There are hundreds of thousands of jobs available every day of the week, no matter what the economy is doing.
Even during this recession, more than 90% of people who want to work in North America are working – just look at the current unemployment figures backwards and you’ll see what I mean.
When a company you want to work for tells you there are no job openings, that just means there is nothing available for you TODAY that they know about.
Employees retire, quit, get fired, go on medical disability or leave for other reasons, often with little or no advance notice, that same company may need your services tomorrow.
Keep in touch with companies you want to work for. (You do have a list of the top 50 don’t you?)
Never limit yourself to just the HR Department. In fact, you would do well to avoid those people altogether, since their main job is to screen applicants out, not in.
Action Step: Identify decision makers at your target companies and keep in touch with them every 14 days.
That is what LinkedIn is for – isn’t it?
Contact them a with something useful twice a month and try to give them another reason to hire you. Don’t use e-mail. Call or mail.
Examples: send them your ideas for solving a problem, survey the competition, research the market for trends, put together a marketing plan. Whatever it is, it should prove you can do what you want to be hired for.
One thing is certain: your competition for jobs is probably doing NOTHING like this – most people give up after the first sign of rejection.
So keep in touch! Situations and people change. And that can lead to a job offer for you.
Think its a bother? You can reuse the same content for each person. Use a stick-it note with “Hey Bob, thought this would be helpful to you, John” on it.
Think its expensive? What is one day’s salary worth to you. If you get a job one day earlier because of it – it’s a break even, one week earlier – its seven times return on your investment.
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This job hunting post was adapted from content provided to by my good friends Kevin Donlin and David Perry, co-creators of the Guerrilla Job Search System.
Kevin and David have been interviewed by CNN, New York Times, Fortune magazine, and the Christian Science Monitor about their method to finding a job.
Get a free audio from Kevin and David on how to get your job search into high gear
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