JOB SEARCH

Unlock the Hidden Job Market to Boost Your Career Growth

Or keep competing with millions of others the old way

Larry Cornett, Ph.D.
Invincible Career
Published in
8 min readAug 3, 2017

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You apply for a job, send your resume, but you never hear back. You may even make it to the interview stage, it seems like it went well, and then — crickets.

You know that you have the skills to get in the door, but for some reason, you stall out when it comes to getting the offer. It’s super frustrating, and you can’t help but wonder why.

If you’re hoping for extraordinary results, you need to stop using traditional job hunting methods. You will never find the best, hidden jobs if you do what everyone else does.

The flawed traditional approach

Earlier this year, Suzie Welch interviewed Dick Costolo to talk about what it takes to get hired by one of the top companies. She mentioned that Google receives over 1 million job applications each year, and most of those come from people who are contacting the company cold or just applying online.

With only ~975 job openings in the U.S., guess how successful those people are in landing one of them?

“…that’s generally not how people get hired at Google, or Amazon, or any…

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Larry Cornett, Ph.D.
Invincible Career

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