CHAPTER 9

The Many Ways of Finding Job Opportunities

If you can’t volunteer, take an internship, or spend time trying to ingratiate yourself with potential employers, use the paths of least resistance. But, remember, this whole book is based on a few important principles—you are marketing yourself, marketing is objectivity, planning brings power, marketing techniques apply to getting a job, everyone is self-interested. Add to those another principle—there are the typical ways of finding a job and the successful candidate tries them all.

Job Sites

I have found over the years that a person can land a job in many different ways and it is best to try each way. Networking is the most popular way today. The only trouble with networking is that students ...

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