| 1. | Using the Internet to look for job-postings or to post one's own resume. (1%) |
| 2. | Mailing out resumes to employers at random. (7%) |
| 3. | Answering ads in professional or trade journals appropriate to your field. (7%) |
| 4. | Answering local newspaper ads. (5-24% depending on salary demands) |
| 5. | Going to private employment agencies or search firms. (5-24% depending on salary demands) |
| 6. | Going to places where employers come to pick out workers, such as union hiring halls. (8%) |
| 7. | Taking a Civil Service exam. (12%) |
| 8. | Asking a former teacher or professor for job-leads. (12%) |
| 9. | Going to the state/Federal employment service office. (14%) |
| 10. | Asking family members, friends, or professionals you know for job-leads. (33%) |
| 11. | Knocking on the door of any employer, factory, or office that interests you, whether they are known to have a vacancy or not. (47%) |
| 12. | By yourself, using the phone book's Yellow Pages to identify fields that interest you, then calling employers in those fields to see if they're hiring for the kind of work you can do. (69%) |
| 13. | In a group with other job-hunters, using the phone book's Yellow Pages as above. (84%) |
| 14. | Doing what is called "the creative approach to job-hunting or career-change": doing homework on yourself, to figure out what your favorite and best skills are; then doing face-to-face interviewing for information only, at organizations in your field; followed up by using your personal contacts to get in to see, at each organization that has interested you, the person-who-actually-has-the-power-to-hire-you (not necessarily the human resources department). (86%) |