I am about to give the best and worst piece of advice I ever discovered. Worst because it sucks that finding a job is not as simple as a few paragraphs and clicks and best because it is true.
In college a lot of people are trying to get jobs. My friends all took slightly different approaches but they all had one thing in common. Applying online. One friend applied to 80 companies online, heard back from six, interviewed with two, and got one job. He is what I would call a great candidate and he spent time creating EIGHTY slightly different resumes, cover letters, and applications. Now applying online is easy but multiply it by 80 and it sucks to accomplish. Also, there is a chance it might not yield to anything.
Thinking logically I determined that the brute force approach sometimes works but what if you do not like the few or one job you end up with. You’re applying to so many jobs that you can not be too choosy. Personally, I do not want to like my job, I want to love it. You live a third of your life in a job, might as well make it count. So I decided to logically target the few jobs I wanted. Then apply online right? NO! I call applying online the black hole of death because you often rarely get an email back and if you do it is likely a job that is akin to a slow death.
So what do you do instead? Well, find out in the next blog article titled: Earning a Calling: The White Hole of Opportunity (SaT-6). If you want some answers now look at the title and you can glean some insights.
::Applying online is a lot of work with a small chance of success::