The depression was a horrible time. Unemployment at 25% and no Unemployment Insurance.
The economy had just turned from the Roaring Twenties where money and work was plentiful.
There was a massive change in the way people lived due to technology. The life of a twenty year was significantly different than the life of a 40 year old.
In fact, there are many similarities to the job hunting environment of today.
In this series of articles, I want to demonstrate to you, that things are haven’t changed that much. The tactics used by successful job hunters in the 1930′s will work just as well today.”Put the employer’s needs before your own. Visualize the needs of the person for whom you want to work. Then fill them” (page 42).
This tip again comes from “We Are Forty And We Did Get Jobs,” by C.B. Thompson and M.L. Wise, two forty-year-old women spent 10 weeks perfecting a job-search system by looking for — and getting — jobs in cities across America.
They wrote about their system, “It proved, in short, the touchstone that had magic even during the depths of the 1938 recession.”
The authors call this, “the most important step of all in the job-getting formula.” It was true then and still is today.
When you keep the employer’s needs uppermost in your mind, it improves every word you write in your resumes and cover letters, and every word you say in job and networking interviews. You will see the world differently — and for the better.
Because, when you focus on employer’s needs, you see problems that need solving in almost any business, in any city. These problems are jobs in disguise. Prove you can solve them, and jobs will be given to or created for you.
Meanwhile, ordinary job seekers, who think first of themselves and their needs, are looking for advertised openings that appeal to them — and not finding many.
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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.
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