Different Possible Ways to Find a Job

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• Mailing out resumes.
• Answering local "want-ads" (in newspapers).
• Going to the state/federal unemployment service.
• Going to private employment agencies.
• Using the internet, either to post your resume or to look for employers' "job-postings," on the employer's own website or elsewhere (Indeed, Career Builder, Yahoo/Hot Jobs, Jobstreet, etc., etc.).
• Asking friends, family, or people in the community for job leads.
• Asking former professor or teacher for job-leads, or career / alumni services at schools that you attended.
• Knocking on doors: of any employer, factory or office that interests you, whether they are known to have a vacancy or not.
• Using the phone book's yellow pages, to identify subjects, fields, or interests that you have - that are located in the city or town where you are or you want to be.
• Joining or forming a "job club."
• Doing a thorough self-inventory of the transferable skills and interests that you most enjoy, so that you can define in stunning detail exactly the job (s) you would most like to have.
• Going to places where employers pick up workers: well-known street corners in your town, or union halls, etc.
• Taking a civil service exam.
• Looking at professional journals in your profession or field, and answering ads there.
• Going to temp agencies (agencies that get you short-term temporary work in places that need your skills, short-term) and letting them place you, again and again, until some place says, "Could you stay on permanently?"
• Volunteering to work for free, short-term, at a place interests you, whether or not they have a known vacancy.

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