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I too have found applying for jobs via web sites to be a complete waste of time. Every job I’ve gotten in the past 20 years was either through a personal contac
by wayoutthere 5y ago
I too have found applying for jobs via web sites to be a complete waste of time. Every job I’ve gotten in the past 20 years was either through a personal contact or a recruiter who reached out and contacted me based on my LinkedIn.
- sharken 5y agoMy experience exactly, it was only after actually calling a company about a job that everything clicked. Sending an application using a recruitment website is like buying a lottery ticket with the same poor chance of winning. And the easiest way to get a job offer is to know someone within the company that can recommend you.
- wayoutthere 5y agoYeah I’ve never seen an employee recommendation not lead to at least an interview. This is one of the biggest lasting benefits of my MBA — if I’m ever out of a job, I can just find a company I want to work for and I probably know someone relatively influential there. It’s sort of a professional courtesy to recommend business school classmates even decades afterwards. These network effects are also why there’s often a bimodal distribution in outcomes between “top” schools and the rest of the pack.