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The question I received was, “to most people get jobs from networking or from job ads?” Let me give you the statistics.
Recruiters fill about 6% of all positions; job is filled about 15 to 20%. I combined the two numbers because recruiters sometimes use job ads to find people so it is just easier to combine them both. 26% are filled by job he has and recruiters.
How do the rest get filled? They get filled by networking. Here is an interesting addendum.
Most of you think of networking as the people you already know. However, there are folks your network knows that you don’t know. Statistics show that 70% of the positions the filled through networking , as a result of introductions to people that you did not know at the beginning of your job search.
Catch that one! Of the privately 70% of positions are filled by networking, 70% of them are filled by introductions the people that the job hunter did not know at the beginning of the search! Almost 50%!
Your goal is to network because that is really where most of the jobs are filled – – by creating relationships with people that you don’t currently know and by expanding the relationship with people that you do know.
Job ads are fine. I encourage people to work with recruiters and answer job ads. However, recruiters are not out there to help you. They are not going to be the source of the lead where they are not compensated. After all, who is a recruiter work for? There working for a company that is going to pay them.
My job is to create a venue for people to want to help you. That comes through networking.
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Do you really think employers are trying to help you? You already know you can’t trust recruiters—they tell as they think you need to know to take the job they after representing so they collect their payday.
The skills needed to find a job are different yet complement the skills needed to do a job.
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter has been a career coach and recruiter for what seems like one hundred years.
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