By Larry Goldsmith, CWDP, P.E.T.
Most job seekers focus only on job openings. Of course you might ask, “What else would you focus?” Successful job seekers take an opposite view. They direct their focus to companies and organizations which employ people with your skill set. Improve your odds. Go to companies and organizations that employ people with your skill set. There are many more jobs out there than job openings. While many position openings are posted and advertised; many more are not.
We read a lot about the percentages of posted job openings. Even if we added together all the print and Internet posted jobs together, it is unlike that total would account for more than 50% of the available jobs. We know from reading numerous accounts about the total amount of positions advertised in the newspapers that this number accounts for less than 2% of all jobs available.
Sadly however, that many job seekers are not aware (or ignore) these statistics. Many other are aware but any for number of reasons make the newspaper and/or the internet their only source of employment information.
The most effective job search demands focusing on employers and industries that are hiring your particular occupational skills, and not focusing on the actual job openings. Seek out companies and organizations or industries that employ people with skills similar to yours or that hire people with similar job titles to yours. A job search focused in this manner will generate more opportunities, better quality jobs at higher salaries than if you focus your attention on jobs rather than job openings.
Don’t discount or ignore the number of advertised positions posted out there in the marketplace. But success may be more evident if you focus most of your attention on the positions that are not advertised
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