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Six of the Best and Worst Ways to Look for a Job

1. Looking for employers' job-postings on the Internet. On average, this method apparently only works 4% of the time. Almost everyone you ask while you're out of work will tell you to search for job postings on the internet. You can use sites such as CareerBuilder, LinkedIn, and US.jobs or even job search engines like Indeed to help this pursuit. But, is this really the best place to look? It may prove successful for some; however, it levels off to just a 4% success rate for most.
2. Posting or mailing out your resume to employers. From experience I can say that this helps you to get an interview and on average this can help you get a job 7% of the time, which is a generous estimate by the way. There is study that shows that only 1 out of 1,470 resumes actually resulted in a job. This is an astounding finding seeing that fact that there are so many resumes floating around. This may come as a shock to most job-hunters, but it is true.
3. Answering local newspaper ads. This job searching method fluctuates from working 5% of the time, up to 24% at best (shocking right!). This fluctuation is due the level of salary that is being pursued. Most of the time you are answering "help wanted ads" in a local newspaper. Those of you who are looking for lower level salaries may find that it works 24% of the time; those of you looking for high salaries...well I think you know what percentage you get. 
4. Going to private employment agencies or search firms for help. Much like the previous method, this method fluctuates as, but somewhere between 5% and 28% of the time at best. This day in age we're lucky because these agencies used to place just office workers; now they place in almost any category of jobs. You may ask, "Why the wide variation of success rate?," well because these agencies vary greatly in their staffing. However, at their best they are way more effective than depending on just your resume. 
5. Answering ads in professional or trade journals, appropriate to your field. This method consists in looking at professional journals in your profession or field, and answering any ads there that intrigue you. This method works only 7% of the time however. 
6. Using the Yellow Pages. This involves you going through the Yellow Pages of your local phone book so that you can identify subjects of interest to you. This method works a whopping 65%. Now of course the traditional method makes it lot harder to get employers to consent to see you. However, you will have a nine times better chance of finding a job with this method, than if you had just depended on your resume.