JOB HUNT
Why the Best Jobs Aren’t Left to Chance
Successful people don’t play by the house rules
I was recently reading about a job candidate who had applied to hundreds of companies to secure a handful of interviews and eventually get a few job offers. This sounds like a real-life variation of one of those ridiculous arcade coin pusher games that my young children always wanted to play (see image above). Your odds of landing a dream job by playing this game are about as good as their odds were of winning the giant stuffed unicorn.
Toss your resume into the pile of thousands of other resumes, and hope it somehow tumbles into the recruiter’s hands. Then, cross your fingers and wish upon a star that the recruiter actually drops your generic resume on the hiring manager’s desk.
It’s a numbers game, right? Widen the top of the funnel to hundreds, or even thousands, of job applications and sooner or later you’ll land a great job. Really? A great job? You researched those hundreds of companies and jobs so well that you would have loved to work at…
