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A friend asked me to join up. Since I've been in my industry for 15 years and since people seem to like me (dunno why) I haven't gotten a job but through perso
by kleer001 11y ago
A friend asked me to join up.
Since I've been in my industry for 15 years and since people seem to like me (dunno why) I haven't gotten a job but through personal recommendations in 8 years.
Please don't pay people money to get you a job. Just get your cold-call game on.
Go through the phone book and find any place that remotely looks like they could use your skillset.
Ring-ring "Hello, are you looking for what I do? No? Ok, thanks for your time." 10 times a day for a month and you should be fine.
- yarper 11y agoIt's not so much paying people to find me a job. What I'm looking for is a reliable way to find good leads at companies that do the simple things to keep their staff happy and are continuously looking to make whatever they make the best possible. So far I haven't found a good way to find that through just trawling the internet and hoping to find gold. People such as yourself (and to a lesser extent me I guess) have a solid professional network. That network kind of pre-vets stuff before they send it on to us. That's really good because you tend to stay in touch with people you like, and we usually like the same things as the people we like. Things like HN who's hiring do help because the kind of companies that post there are likely to have a similar outlook to me (after all we frequent the same place). Edit: when I said I have a professional network - it's not that wide. While a couple of things have come up from it, it's not like other stories of just letting people know they're available and getting hired
- kleer001 11y ago> reliable way to find good leads at companies that do the simple things to keep their staff happy and are continuously looking to make whatever they make the best possible. Just word of mouth, right?