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It works really well.

You know more people than you think.

We went out to breakfast today, and I made a point of telling the waitress I'd just been laid off last Friday.

How else would I know if her husband has an opening? (He didn't)

EVERY contact is an opportunity to learn of a job before it gets advertised, and THAT is when you want to find it. You have no competition, and you are saving them the cost of advertizing, and the pain of wading through scores of résumés, and dozens of inteviews...

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EVERY contact is an opportunity to learn of a job before it gets advertised, and THAT is when you want to find it.

Exellent advice... but how many waitresses have you met that had husbands in the micro-machine engineering field?