• Thank you for coming to learn how to
solve your job search woes, some of which
I’ve learned about through Chat and
Perplexity AI searches.
• I understand your pain because I’ve
been in your shoes.
• Here’s a brief story on how I came up
with advice on how to solve your job search
woes.
• I had a very good job hunting guide
(linked to on this page) on hand by the
time I graduated from college in 2000 but
major blunders I made drastically
lengthened my search for long-term,
full-time work to May 2019.
• I have used this experience to
write ‘Don’t hang that Breaking
Ball: How to not crush your Job Search,
Career or Presentation’ and help answer
questions you have on how to find a job.
• You’ll find these books less than halfway
below.
How to Solve Your Job Search Woes?
Solving your job search woes requires a systematic approach across 5 key areas:
• Applying for Jobs Thoroughly • Avoiding Common Interview Mistakes
• Writing a Resume that Gets Noticed • Overcoming Being Unemployed Too Long
• Overcoming a Lack of Job Experience
Applying for Jobs Thoroughly
• Your resume and cover letter must be solid.
• You must interview properly.
• Look for job openings almost daily.
• Quickly respond to openings that interest
you and match your qualifications.
• Consider following up on your resume
submissions.
• Never neglect to immediately email or
mail off a note to the interviewer that
expresses your gratitude for his/her time
and briefly reiterates your interest in the
position and your qualifications for it.
Avoiding Common Interview Mistakes
Common interview mistakes include:
• badmouthing former employers
• not dressing professionally
• lack of preparation for key questions
• arriving late
• being unprepared to answer the question
of what you know about this company, which
is the blunder I have paid for the most as a
job seeker.
Writing a Resume that Gets Noticed
Your resume must have bulleted sentences,
be free of typos, have action words that
convey the impact you’ve had on your
employers rather than merely stating your
tasks, etc.
Overcoming Being Unemployed Too Long
• While seeking a job, do freelancing or
self-employment work such as taking paid
surveys, doing online tasks through the
Amazon Mturk program and writing books
then connect to this on your resume and at
interviews.
• Consider doing relevant volunteer work
and starting your own business.
Overcoming a Lack of Job Experience
• The best, if not one of the best ways
to do this, is to join as many temp
agencies in your area as you can and be
flexible in accepting as many of their
assignments as you can, as they’re more
apt to take a chance on you than
traditional employers – making myself
available for Randstad’s office and
production jobs then doing all the
full-time warehouse jobs they offered
me got my foot in the door, leading to
permanent employment.
• Two other ways to find a job with no
experience are to look for signs saying
no experience is necessary on job
postings and storefronts and to try to
find an internship that’s relevant to the
field you wish to enter.
👉 Books on resume and job interview tips here:
• Don’t hang that Breaking Ball: How to not crush your
Job Search, Career or Presentation
• Peterson’s The Insider’s Guide to finding The Perfect Job
Here’s a case study concerning a woman
who found a job through creative
Now that we’ve directly covered how to
solve your job search woes, let’s move on
to correlating topics. A case study reveals
that touch typing is a fundamental skill that
provides a big advantage in many job roles
through:
• higher efficiency and accuracy for
administrative and data entry workers
• increased productivity for those in the
legal, medical transcription and software
development fields
• I might be able to steer you toward this
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Another case study I read reveals that a
high school junior who was working
hard but didn’t have the grades to show
for it solved her problem by using a
planner to manage her time and
organize her research while preparing
for tests.
• I’ve never used a planner but I
overcame struggles similar to this
student in college partly by learning to
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textbooks plus keep all my test papers
to refer back to during the semester.
• I can teach you a lot more of what I
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