I Rated 16 Job Search Strategies For Effectiveness! Which Are Best To Get A Job Fast?

Sso, if a contractor placement rep calls you to get you a position is that considered outbound sourcing?

Regarding the This Works, This Doesn't photo thumbnail, what would you prefer, an honest reaction or someone shining you on when they are not interested? Your thumb nail with that comment doesn't work for me.

6/10 for Job Boards is grossly optimistic. Job boards are great for research but the odds are against you. Ghost and fake postings abound. Many firms have already filled a position and are just going through the motions to post it to meet EEOC requirements. And, as you observe, there are thousands of candidates. If you must use job boards for lack of personal networking contacts, you need to ignore applying online and seek out the hiring manager to apply directly, thus turning this into a networking contact. Also, don't overlook your vendors. They're among your best networking contacts. If, for example, you're a marketing manager and you have media account executives or printing vendors calling on you, they deal with people in your job all over town and will be among the first to hear of new opening. They'll want to keep your business when you move on, so they'll be excited about helping you.

do you have more information on outbound sourcing?

Job fairs are terrible, been to only one in my life, and it was a complete waste of time. Cold calling is such a dated archaic method, complete waste of time. Only dinosaurs completely out of touch with today's job market recommend this method.

Employer: "You want a job HERE?! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
PhD student: "This is McDonald's. It's an entry-level job!"
Employer: "Oh honey, no, no, no. With this economy, you need fifteen years of experience!"

Then there's how Percy got his job in The Green Mile.

Do all of the above. There is no wrong way of getting your resume seen. Just be creative.

Going in person is good for a low paying job.

As someone new to the field of software development... All the best options are out lol that's the problem. I also graduated from an online school that is quite good but didn't have an internship, and many internships want you in school which I am not. Ready to give up lol it's like experience starvation mode.

I've never had an external recruiter do anything but waste my time. I don't even bother with them anymore. All of the jobs I've found over the last 25 years have been direct apply (through a job board or on the company website) or through a referral.

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I have been going through a job search for several months and I would say your evaluation is pretty close to what I am seeing. Good points!

If you're a software engineer looking for a job right now: lmao good luck

Cold calling works for small companies that don’t have an official HR person and you contact the right person. I got a job by opening up the phone book and started calling companies that were closest to me. I found a job that was only three miles away. My friend has gotten a couple jobs by walking in the front door of businesses and asking them if they need a highly experienced technician.

With my industry I quickly learned that job postings on sites like Indeed and linkedin are either old or fake. If I found a job that I am interested in I hop over to the employers' web site and apply directly.

No matter where I see a job opening posted, i always go directly to the companies web site or careers site and apply that way. If i can skip the third party screeners or recruiters, I do.

Sounds like we got a Zionist Jewish Chabad problem

internship does not always pay that well. Industrial contacts and referrals are difficult to get. Outbound sourcing /recruiter often use job networks like linkedn and indeed

Nice to see the marvelous stories of people here with hiring experiences in the past. Do I have one? No lmao. I'm 18, in college, desperately looking for a job and been have for months. I've applied to all sorts of department stores, all fast food near me. Walmart, Publix, Target, Home Depot, Lowe's, Twistee Treat, McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, AutoZone Auto Parts, Tj Maxx, Ross, Bells, BJ's, Costco. Have I got a single interview? Hahaha, no.

I went to every store individually wasting dozens of miles of gas asking for a hiring manager. The ones that came out, told me they weren't hiring most of the time, the rest told me they'll see the application. Haha not a single interview, response, anything. I check my emails daily, I check all the application accounts for all places I've applied to and they are all under review. I'm about to be homeless soon if I don't get hired. My college won't hire either, I'm a very social likeable person, but no.

To be fair he did say this was geared towards getting a job now. I says the first 9 items allow you to get higher quality returns on items 10-16. And 16 is a product of the other 15. So your ROI on 16 is entirely dependent on on 1-15. Of note my three jobs came from Cold Calling, Job Fairs, and Online networking. The other two (1 and 3) were absolutely vital to obtaining number 11.
1. Cold Calling - allows you to get comfortable being uncomfortable.
2. Engaging on social media - gets you knowledgeable about the company.
3. Job Fairs - Get you talking to company representatives and possibly hiring managers and you get to practice.
4. Industry events - You know what is going on in the industry and get talking to people that are trying to get into the industry as well.
5. Forums - Practice with other people in the industry or interested in the industry and the lingo or how they engage with each other.
6. Professional Organizations - Get awareness of what is going on in your industry
7. Applying to the Companies job board - Go around the recruiters
8. Recruiters (He says head hunter) -
9. Website - Show your an expert
10. Job Boards -
11. Online networking - Linkedin - targeted
12. Help Wanted sign -
13. Internship -
14. Industry Contacts -
15. Employer Referral
16. Outsourcing - Recruiters recruiting - make yourself discoverable (ergo do all the other 15 things)

I have not found help wanted signs to be all that effective. Especially if they have been up for over a year, sun faded or permanently decaled on the side of a truck.

Really good video I subscribed to your channel right away. I like that way you explain it very clear and right to the point . congratulations

Thanks for those insightful good tips !!!

Thank you

You left off Nepotism which I will give an 11 out of 10.

The worst thing a job can do is drain your energy so you don't have the will to look for new jobs.

Bring back technical networking events! We used to have those in California to meet and greet and network that died with the pandemic.

LinkedIn sucks it is bad site and locks me out from using it and job boards stink bad too like Indeed and Dice are worthless!

We are hiring banners are about the closest thing to a help wanted sign at bigbox stores. It's mostly just apple orchards in my rural area actually using simple help wanted signs.

Find a job advertised, then ask to speak or contact the man or woman in charge and give or send them ur rèsumè

I must disagree on cold calling. That's how I got my 3 first jobs, it really depends on your field tbh. But as a designer that worked in agencies in Europe they are pretty small "around 10-40 max", usually you end-up switch between those agencies and everybody knows everyone.
It only way I found to get in was cold email a lot of agencies with my portfolio as an internship first and the others the same, without a "position open" because don't forget some smaller companies don't even have an HR is the accountant or even ceo doing it. Sending emails on linkedin is a way to get "closer" to employees and recommending you, worked for me too bypass also some candidates.

When I was younger, I found that temping was a great way to get into companies where I didn't have contacts. The pay was minimal, but if you're able to show managers the quality of your work, most of them will make you a full-time offer in a relatively short amount of time. Plus, it gives you the chance find out if the company is a place you would even want to work at long-term.

Making friends with 2-3 quality temp agencies in your area, being available when they contact you for assignments, and doing outstanding work for the companies you are assigned to can really help you between FT jobs, if you do it right.

I'm much more wary of unpaid internships. There's way too many chances for employer exploitation. If you work, you should get paid, period.

Very informative and well thought out.

Thanks

Not what you know, it’s who you know.

I wasted too much time at job fairs. No wonder why it didn't work.

I am a highly successful healthcare professional. I have found cold calling and personal, not professional, networking to be the two most effective ways to find meaningful, lucrative, long term employment. If you are an ultrasound technician, physician, or dental hygienist… you will miss out on the best job opportunities if you don’t start with these two methods. I think your channel and advice are excellent but you way underrated these methods.

eh, i find job-fairs to be 4 out of 10, in my experience, yes, they are very much a blind crap-shoot because you never know what or how many will be there, but the ones that have wide variety of jobs, used to have decent turn outs, but i am talking 18+ years ago, these days maybe not so much

Job fairs that are company specific are totally worth going to though. Say "Company XYZ" is hosting a job fair at their head office. Fantastic way to get a job quickly & even accelerated into the interview process same day! Happened to myself and some others in the company got hired the same way. Some got hired via job boards but it was much slower, ie 2 months.

Alright, my boomer relatives tell me to 'speak to the manager' to let them know I'm interested. Does that work or not?

Job Fairs suck

Cold calling sucks

So basically recruiters only hire the cute girls that they see on LinkedIn… great! Looks like I’m gonna have to start pondering moving to Amsterdam and being a male prostitute that’s open to wild fetishes if I wanna bring home the bacon…

What if you don’t have network and make a video helping folks build a network or build a good reference list.

If I'm already out of school, how would I go about an internship?

Good information
I would change the simple rating format to 3 ratings. Something like; Entry, Mid-tier and Executive.