I see most of those open-position LinkedIn posts as lazy cries for help rather than legitimate job search strategy. People swarm and post good reviews of the person as a coworker/employee, but it’s a waste of time. Sympathy is not worth a damn, no matter how many people tell you that you deserve a great job.
Chris Rock said something similar to my attitude: a person waiting on the side of the road with a broken car isn’t getting help. A person pushing their car on an exit ramp will get people to help.
Here are better job hunting strategies:
* Connect with anyone (just spam connect requests). You can easily have 5,000 connections. This looks good to people who take a cursory glance at your profile.
* remove anything on your profile that could be a potential liability for your future employer: no attitude, no rainbow emojis, no flags, no political statements
* embellish your resume and work history. If you’ve read a tutorial on a technology, you list it.
* start applying for anything you might qualify for. Interviewing is a skill and a process you have to get used to.
* Set your status to Open-to-work, open accounts on Monster/Dice/Blind/Indeed and start talking to headhunters/recruiters. Reach out to the big players (TekSystems, Robert Half, etc) as well as the smaller shops and see what they have.
* Personally ask or DM your friends for leads and references.
* search for “inurl:careers <your role or industry>” and find open positions to apply for anything
If you can’t get a job after following this advice, you’re doing something wrong.
Chris Rock said something similar to my attitude: a person waiting on the side of the road with a broken car isn’t getting help. A person pushing their car on an exit ramp will get people to help.
Here are better job hunting strategies:
* Connect with anyone (just spam connect requests). You can easily have 5,000 connections. This looks good to people who take a cursory glance at your profile.
* remove anything on your profile that could be a potential liability for your future employer: no attitude, no rainbow emojis, no flags, no political statements
* embellish your resume and work history. If you’ve read a tutorial on a technology, you list it.
* start applying for anything you might qualify for. Interviewing is a skill and a process you have to get used to.
* Set your status to Open-to-work, open accounts on Monster/Dice/Blind/Indeed and start talking to headhunters/recruiters. Reach out to the big players (TekSystems, Robert Half, etc) as well as the smaller shops and see what they have.
* Personally ask or DM your friends for leads and references.
* search for “inurl:careers <your role or industry>” and find open positions to apply for anything
If you can’t get a job after following this advice, you’re doing something wrong.