What's The Best Way To Get A Job When You're Unemployed?

One of the best parts of my free Resume Webinar is the Q & A portion, where I take audience questions.

During a recent webinar, an attendee asked:

? ? ? ? ? ? ?"What's the best way to get a job when you're unemployed?" - M.G.

This is a natural question given today's highly competitive job market. And there's one overriding answer that will work for everyone who builds this advice into their job search.

My Answer: Do more of what matters to hiring managers.

This sounds simple and obvious, but so few job seekers actually do more in a meaningful way, that doing more becomes an effective way for you to find a job faster when you're unemployed. Instead, what most job seekers attempt to do more of, just takes more time, without improving results.

Most job seekers incorrectly interpret doing more as sending more resumes and apply to more jobs, because that's what most career coaches and outplacement firms teach.

But employers don't care how many resumes you send, and it can look like you're so desperate to find a job that you're sending resumes to jobs where you won't be a good fit (recruiters sarcastically refer to this as "spray and pray"). Sending more resumes means that you're doing the same things over and over (more of the things that aren't working), hoping for different results ... The definition of insanity according to Einstein.

When you do more of the right things, doing more works for entry level, staff, managers, executives and C-Level job seekers, in every job function and in every industry. It works for Baby Boomers just as well as it works for Gen-Zs.

My successful coaching subscribers and clients have found great jobs when they were unemployed by doing more than:

• Sending an average resume
• Applying to jobs online
• Networking in the way you were taught

These are strategies you would already be using, if you knew how ... but nobody has taught you. Until now ...

Because I'll teach you this same strategy of how to do more to find your next job when you're unemployed, during my next free Resume Webinar - Beating Unemployment.

I help people solve the most difficult job search problems, including job search acceleration, getting past ATSs, ageism, remote positions, product/job function/career/industry/ geographic change, unemployment, "bouncy" recent career path, job search turnaround, seeking raise/promotion, industry in decline/consolidation, long term gaps, family leave, or other of the most challenging job search issues.

Join me for my next free Resume Webinar (enroll at https://x.resumewebinar.com/Registration for no charge) and learn how to accelerate your job search, so you can find your next job faster in 2024.

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