[roel_v]

Re: #1, great! That means you have 7 hours and 45 minutes left each day to browse the Yellow Pages for companies that employ people in your line of work, look up their websites for job ads, find out who their HR managers are and call them to see if there are non-advertised job openings, participate in online forums where there are people who work in companies you want to work and who could be looking for people, etc. etc. The whole point is that just sending out some resumes each day is the wrong approach to finding a job.

[vaksel]

have you had that work for you or for anyone yo know? or are you just throwing it out there as a way to do something.

it's easy to say go walk from business to business shaking hands asking if their company is hiring, and yes for a few people that might actually work...but for the vast majority it'll be an exercise in futility.

[bartonfink]

I know of one person who got a job that way. He was pretty damned good, and had the benefit that he was 18 at the time and didn't know that going door to door "never works."

[vaksel]

was it for a real job or for a minimum wage type job(McDonalds etc)

[bartonfink]

Please don't be a smartass. It was a real job as a software engineer at a DARPA research lab. Like I said, he was good.

[salemh]

Congrats to him! 10 cold-calls a day to relevant companies and specific hiring manager (jigsaw, spoke, linkedin) is highly effective at gaining 1st interviews. Linkedin just for "cold connection" or "cold email" contact works very well also. With recent grads / the younger work force tends to apply for jobs outside the realm of their abilities. Such as, 3-5 years of X and X. My own favorite (I was unemployed for 6 months post grad in 2009) was contacting companies / persons and stating something to the effect of "I know you are looking for someone with 3-5 years of experience. I am a recent graduate with 1-2 and wanted to know if you were considering more junior candidates. Could we setup a phone or 1st interview?" Or, volunteering for free.

[klenwell]

It was the DARPA research lab next to the McDonald's.

[pzxc]

It certainly will be an exercise in futility if that's what you think it is before you even start.

[vaksel]

same question for you...has it worked for you or anyone you know?

[pzxc]

Yes.

[ora600]

worked for me too.