How to get a job at any company: 1) Know the company better than the company knows itself. 2) Know their "pain". That is, know the set of problems that would

How to get a job at any company: 1) Know the company better than the company knows itself. 2) Know their "pain". That is, know the set of problems that would be faced by a key decision maker or senior management -- on a daily basis. 3) Know who the key decision maker(s) is/are. 4) Figure out a way to communicate with those decision makers directly, sidestepping their "minions" (lower-level rank-and-file non-decision-making employees) that act as gatekeepers who turn away people -- including most job applicants. 5) #4 may require some out of the box thinking and acting, for example, figuring out how to attend a party, gathering, or other social event at which the key decision maker or decision makers will be present. 6) Email should be avoided -- until and unless you have built rapport through another channel... 7) You need a few things to make this happen, you need to be smart, but you also need good social skills, good faith, ethics, integrity, and a little bit of luck... If one or more of these things is not present, you will fail. 8) Persistence and Flexibility are virtues.