Orlando Counselor gives 5 Best Ways to Get the Job

By Published On: February 14th, 20202.4 min read

How do you compete and land the job with 500 qualified applicants who want the job as well?

Let’s start with looking at all the ways you find a job. There are 16 job hunting methods and they are as follows:
  1. Mailing out resumes
  2. Answering local “want ads”
  3. Going to the state and Federal unemployment service
  4. Going to private employment agencies
  5. Using the Internet (Monster.com, Career Builder, Indeed.com, Etc.)
  6. Asking friends, family or people in the community
  7. Asking a professor or former teacher
  8. Knocking on doors
  9. Yellow Pages
  10. Joining a “job club” or professional associations in the career you are interested in
  11. Taking a Civil Service Exam
  12. Looking at professional journals or web sites
  13. Going to work for a temp agency
  14. Volunteering
In order to be the most successful in your job search, you should use four of the above methods. Research has found that if you use more than four, your likelihood of success begins to decrease, and continues to decrease with each additional method that you add to your job search.
THE FIVE WORST WAYS TO LOOK FOR A JOB
  1. Using the Internet
  2. Mailing out resumes to employers at random
  3. Answering ads in professional or trade journals
  4. Answering newspaper ads
  5. Going to private employment agencies

THE FIVE BEST WAYS TO FIND A JOB

  1. Asking for job-leads from people you know
  2. Knocking on the door of any employer, factory, or office that interests you, whether they are known to have a vacancy or not
  3. By yourself using the phone book’s yellow pages to identify fields of interest to you in the place you live and want to work, and then calling up the employers listed in that field, to ask if they are hiring
  4. With a group using the phone book’s yellow pages to identify fields of interest to you in the place you live and want to work, and then calling up the employers listed in that field, to ask if they are hiring
  5. Doing a life changing job hunt

WHAT IS A LIFE CHANGING JOB HUNT?

  1. What? Assess your transferable skills (skills you already have and enjoy using)
  2. Where? Determine your best job environment
  3. How? Find out the names of the companies you want to work for and determine the jobs they offer that best fit your transferrable skills. Find out who you should talk to so you can show what you have to offer.
Finally, if you have found yourself answering ads in the newspapers or job-postings on the Internet and so far you haven’t found a job, DON’T JUST DO MORE OF THE SAME!!!!!!! CHANGE YOUR TACTICS. TRY A NEW STRATEGY.
Recommended Books:
48 Days to the Work You Love
What Color is your Parachute?
Do What You Are

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Jim West
Adolescent Expert, Jim West offers expert advice to Local and National TV News & Schools Internationally and provides phone or face-to-face counseling in the Orlando area. Jim is an Author, Communicator, School Consultant, Nationally Certified and State Licensed Counselor and specializes in counseling for Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADD/ADHD) and Oppositional Defiance Disorder (ODD). Jim has been interviewed for multiple TV, Radio, magazine and newspaper articles. He is president of Total Life Counseling Center and his Total Life approach accelerates the therapeutic & healing process by relating to children, adolescents and adults and incorporating wellness. Jim’s clients travel from all over Florida, England, Georgia, Cayman Islands and the Bahamas as he has been able to treat clients with ADHD, Anxiety, Mood Disorders, Depression and more with FDA approved supplements and Dietary Modifications. 85% of his clients have not needed medication or used less medication than when they first came to Total Life Counseling Center.

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Adolescent Expert, Jim West offers expert advice to Local and National TV News & Schools Internationally and provides phone or face-to-face counseling in the Orlando area. Jim is an Author, Communicator, School Consultant, Nationally Certified and State Licensed Counselor and specializes in counseling for Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADD/ADHD) and Oppositional Defiance Disorder (ODD). Jim has been interviewed for multiple TV, Radio, magazine and newspaper articles. He is president of Total Life Counseling Center and his Total Life approach accelerates the therapeutic & healing process by relating to children, adolescents and adults and incorporating wellness. Jim’s clients travel from all over Florida, England, Georgia, Cayman Islands and the Bahamas as he has been able to treat clients with ADHD, Anxiety, Mood Disorders, Depression and more with FDA approved supplements and Dietary Modifications. 85% of his clients have not needed medication or used less medication than when they first came to Total Life Counseling Center.

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Jim West
Adolescent Expert, Jim West offers expert advice to Local and National TV News & Schools Internationally and provides phone or face-to-face counseling in the Orlando area. Jim is an Author, Communicator, School Consultant, Nationally Certified and State Licensed Counselor and specializes in counseling for Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADD/ADHD) and Oppositional Defiance Disorder (ODD). Jim has been interviewed for multiple TV, Radio, magazine and newspaper articles. He is president of Total Life Counseling Center and his Total Life approach accelerates the therapeutic & healing process by relating to children, adolescents and adults and incorporating wellness. Jim’s clients travel from all over Florida, England, Georgia, Cayman Islands and the Bahamas as he has been able to treat clients with ADHD, Anxiety, Mood Disorders, Depression and more with FDA approved supplements and Dietary Modifications. 85% of his clients have not needed medication or used less medication than when they first came to Total Life Counseling Center.