Career Coach Counselor gives 5 Best Ways to Get the Job

By Jim WestPublished On: February 14th, 20202.4 min read

How do you compete and land the job with 500 qualified applicants who want the job as well?

Let’s start with looking at all the ways you find a job. There are 16 job hunting methods and they are as follows:

Mailing out resumes
Answering local “want ads”
Going to the state and Federal unemployment service
Going to private employment agencies
Using the Internet (Monster.com, Career Builder, Indeed.com, Etc.)
Asking friends, family or people in the community
Asking a professor or former teacher
Knocking on doors
Yellow Pages
Joining a “job club” or professional associations in the career you are interested in
Taking a Civil Service Exam
Looking at professional journals or web sites
Going to work for a temp agency
Volunteering

In order to be the most successful in your job search, you should use four of the above methods. Research has found that if you use more than four, your likelihood of success begins to decrease, and continues to decrease with each additional method that you add to your job search.

THE FIVE WORST WAYS TO LOOK FOR A JOB

Using the Internet
Mailing out resumes to employers at random
Answering ads in professional or trade journals
Answering newspaper ads
Going to private employment agencies

THE FIVE BEST WAYS TO FIND A JOB

Asking for job-leads from people you know
Knocking on the door of any employer, factory, or office that interests you, whether they are known to have a vacancy or not
By yourself using the phone book’s yellow pages to identify fields of interest to you in the place you live and want to work, and then calling up the employers listed in that field, to ask if they are hiring
With a group using the phone book’s yellow pages to identify fields of interest to you in the place you live and want to work, and then calling up the employers listed in that field, to ask if they are hiring
Doing a life changing job hunt

WHAT IS A LIFE CHANGING JOB HUNT?

What? Assess your transferable skills (skills you already have and enjoy using)
Where? Determine your best job environment
How? Find out the names of the companies you want to work for and determine the jobs they offer that best fit your transferrable skills. Find out who you should talk to so you can show what you have to offer.

Finally, if you have found yourself answering ads in the newspapers or job-postings on the Internet and so far you haven’t found a job, DON’T JUST DO MORE OF THE SAME!!!!!!! CHANGE YOUR TACTICS. TRY A NEW STRATEGY.

Recommended Books:

48 Days to the Work You Love
What Color is your Parachute?
Do What You Are

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About the Author: Jim West

Adolescent Expert, Jim West offers expert advice to Local and National TV News & Schools Internationally and provides phone or face-to-face counseling in the Orlando area. Jim is an Author, Communicator, School Consultant, Nationally Certified and State Licensed Counselor and specializes in counseling for Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADD/ADHD) and Oppositional Defiance Disorder (ODD). Jim has been interviewed for multiple TV, Radio, magazine and newspaper articles. He is president of Total Life Counseling Center and his Total Life approach accelerates the therapeutic & healing process by relating to children, adolescents and adults and incorporating wellness. Jim’s clients travel from all over Florida, England, Georgia, Cayman Islands and the Bahamas as he has been able to treat clients with ADHD, Anxiety, Mood Disorders, Depression and more with FDA approved supplements and Dietary Modifications. 85% of his clients have not needed medication or used less medication than when they first came to Total Life Counseling Center.