Today’s Tip: Don’t Click Apply!

Let's talk about how 85% or more of job seekers spend 85% or more of their time. They are the expert Clickers, having mastered the process of finding openings on job boards like Monster and Career Builder and then clicking the APPLY button.

This is the quickest way for you to enter the Resume Black Hole Zone, which is where your resume will remain unless you somehow get lucky and the magical Job Board Recruiter Fairy happens to stumble across your profile and determine that you are the perfect match.

What's the point? Job searching is very hard work and to be successful you have to do what few others are doing.

By the way, here's something we cover in the JSAP class: how do you find out the actual hiring company when the posting on Monster is anonymous?