FReeper needs help with advice on job search approach. (Vanity)

[erod]

Hello FReepers! I’m writing this post because like many I’m struggling to get a job and I need some help. I’m about to embark on my job search again (I took a three-month-hiatus to work a part-time marketing job to get some more experience) and I want to know if any of you had luck with a specific type of job searching technique.

Maybe you knocked on doors, networked, or buried yourself daily in classifieds? I want to know what techniques worked for you or what techniques didn’t work for you. I’ll try to make this short, but here is a little bit of my background and my plan. I’m a 26-year-old Chicagoan (don’t hold it against me please), with a degree in Journalism from The University of Iowa and I have approximately two years of experience working in higher education part-time as a recruiter, and three months working part-time for a close friend of mine who’s starting a business.

My plan is to use his connections and try to get in contact with 2-3 people a week and when I’m not talking with contacts I’ll be looking at job listings applying for three a day. I hope my approach works and please share anything that has worked or hasn’t worked with you. I hope this thread can help others like me who am uncertain of what to do in their job search. Best, Erod

[erod]

I’m on it thanks!

[erod]

Hey CJ I wish he was still at his company he was a former president and he decided to retire at his old company. I’m helping him out with his startup, so I guess I am employed by him. :)

[erod]

Awesome links thanks! :)

[erod]

A history major working as an IT business analyst!

Thanks matginzac, I hope I can be a journalist major working in a business career! :)

[Cindy]

Thanks erod.

You can customize your search links there by putting in states, cities of your choice after you click on each link.

[B4Ranch]

Glad to hear it. Cindy has got some good threads going.

[matginzac]

Glad to help!
I forgot my other favorite family story on job searching: My bro was a mech engineer grad from Long Beach St in CA and all his fellows mech engrs got jobs with aerospace firms at huge salaries. He landed a job with the gov (Navy) at Pt. Magu, working on the first drone systms because his hobby was/is remote controlled model airplanes. Within two years, his buds were out of jobs when the aerospace industry melted down; he’s like a GS 18 now and works on SDI. Moral of the story: don’t over look hobbies, interests and past times when getting direction for your search...again, good luck and God speed....