Asking for job leads from: family members, friends, people in the community, and staff at career centers – especially at your local community college or the high school or college where you graduated. – Ask one simple question: do you know of any jobs at the place you work or elsewhere?  This method has a 33% success rate.

By yourself, using the phone book’s yellow pages to identify subjects or fields of interest to you in the town or city where you want to work, and then calling up the employers in the listed field, to ask if they hiring for the type of position you can do, and do well. – This method has a 69% success rate.  By doing targeted phone calls you have almost a 10 times better success rate than sending out resumes alone.

In a group with other job hunters, a kind of “job club,” using the phone book’s yellow pages to identify subjects or fields of interest to you in the town or city where you want to work, and then calling up the employers in the listed field, to ask if they hiring for the type of position you can do, and do well. – Using this method increase your odds to 84%.  This over 11 times higher than sending out resumes.

Doing a life changing job hunt. – This method increases your odds to 86%.  You need to inventory and identify the skills you have that you most enjoy using. They are called transferable skills, because they are transferable to any field/career that you choose.  You need to decide where you want to use your skills, where you would thrive, and where you would do your most effective work.  You need to decide how to get where you want to go.