The last four students we've gotten have been people cold-calling us. The last three naturopaths we've gotten have been people cold-calling us.

A decade or so back, my uncle was out of a job. He had five kids from two marriages he needed to support. It wasn’t his first time job hunting, but it was his first time without a steady income. The lesson he learned distilled down to:

You want to figure out where you want to work,

Narrowing in on the field.

you want to figure out who you'd be working for there,

Taking the time on each company’s site of interest, and taking notes on any contact information available after reading about company accomplishments and clients.

and you want to ask them for a job

Tailor a resume to the job, then cold calling any number listed or even a cold e-mail. Anything over job posting sites. His last job, which he stuck with ended up being a lucky break by e-mailing the “info@“ e-mail address listed. Turns out the position he would be suited for opened up when a prospective hire declined last minute on an offer.

Meanwhile, I’m trying to assist a friend with re-formatting his resume up until he tells me his “300 applications a week” is a mostly Easy-Applies on LinkedIn, which is the only site he wants to use because he pays for premium to talk to recruiters. If Easy-Apply is that simple for one person, then imagine how many other will click the button too (let alone how easy to sift through the noise it is for a recruiter).

Needless to say, cannot recommend cold e-mails at the least enough.