Look for a job where the jobs are (i.e. fish where
the fish are).
Growing industries and locations offer better odds of finding a job because demand
exceeds supply. In declining industries, it will be
harder to find a job.
There are several resources on JobBait that will help
you right now.
Last but not least, you can
increase your odds
for a local and national job search.
Here's an example of how this works: A $200k+ finance
and marketing executive wanted to stay as close to home
in southeastern Pennsylvania as possible. If he couldn't
find a job there, he would relocate, but only to areas
on the east coast, or in a couple other areas where he
had family (and where his wife was willing to move). He
started by targeting the industries that were growing
near home, but there were only 400 businesses available
for his mailing list. So, he expanded is job-search to
area/industry combinations that were growing on the east
coast, adding more and more until his mailing list was
the size he wanted (he was shooting for 6,000). In 2007,
he sent 5,200+ letters and his thank you note read: "Mark, I got 2 offers
within 30 days, accepted a President position in
early June. I was out of the job market for 6 weeks,
or really 2 weeks after I got the mailing together.
Ironically, the letter that won the day was shared
with a sister company that made the offer. Thanks." DM
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