Being unemployed is no fun, but it is no disgrace, either.
Especially when you look at today's job market.
If you want a job, you are going to have to use everything at your disposal to compete with the huge number of people who are also looking for employment.
1.
Tell people you are looking for a job.
Don't stop with your immediate family.
Contact your parents, siblings, cousins, aunts and uncles, in-laws, and even those who might be termed as shirt-tail relatives.
Ask those you contact to pass the word to their own friends and relatives.
You never know when one of them may hear of a job opening just right for you and give you a call.
After the family connections are exhausted, talk to your friends and neighbors.
If you belong to a club, share the news.
You may be pleasantly surprised that a fellow member knows of a job that has just opened up in the company he or she works for.
2.
Don't neglect the usual channels connected with job searches.
This means to get yourself a good resume written up and keep it in circulation.
Just because you have applied once at a particular place doesn't mean you should never contact them again.
After a couple of weeks, call or stop by the places where you have applied before and let them know that you are still looking and would appreciate being considered if a position should turn up.
Put in applications at employment agencies, and at in-store computerized employment desks.
Watch for help-wanted signs in store windows.
3.
Post the news that you're available for certain kinds of work on local bulletin boards.
Maybe your future employer isn't in the habit of looking for employees on bulletin boards, but someone who works for that employer might see your notice and pass the word along.
Malls, public libraries, community colleges, and large grocery stores are just a few of the places that encourage the posting of such notices.
Who knows, while you are posting your, "Work Wanted," item, you may stumble across one that says, "Help Wanted.
" 4.
Use a Unique Method of Drawing Attention to Your Need for a Job.
People have tried a number of unusual ways to draw attention to things that affect them.
We are all familiar with stories of those who have proposed by hiring a skywriter or donned chicken costumes to advertise outside a specialty chicken sandwich place.
If you have a dramatic flair, you might try wearing a reader board to broadcast your need for work.
Or, perhaps you're more the T-Shirt with a message type.
Some job-seekers have experienced success through running an ad in the local newspaper or by getting themselves interviewed on a local radio program.
Such activities would reach a much wider audience than those aimed at one particular business.
Put on your thinking cap and come up with a unique idea of your own.
You can do it.
Finally, don't just sit around waiting for a job to happen.
True, jobs sometimes seem to appear out of nowhere, but while you are waiting, consider creating a job for yourself to tide you over.
Taking a little time to review your skills may pay off in an idea for a business you can run from home, or at least make a little extra cash to help you get by until a full-time job does open up for you.
Especially when you look at today's job market.
If you want a job, you are going to have to use everything at your disposal to compete with the huge number of people who are also looking for employment.
1.
Tell people you are looking for a job.
Don't stop with your immediate family.
Contact your parents, siblings, cousins, aunts and uncles, in-laws, and even those who might be termed as shirt-tail relatives.
Ask those you contact to pass the word to their own friends and relatives.
You never know when one of them may hear of a job opening just right for you and give you a call.
After the family connections are exhausted, talk to your friends and neighbors.
If you belong to a club, share the news.
You may be pleasantly surprised that a fellow member knows of a job that has just opened up in the company he or she works for.
2.
Don't neglect the usual channels connected with job searches.
This means to get yourself a good resume written up and keep it in circulation.
Just because you have applied once at a particular place doesn't mean you should never contact them again.
After a couple of weeks, call or stop by the places where you have applied before and let them know that you are still looking and would appreciate being considered if a position should turn up.
Put in applications at employment agencies, and at in-store computerized employment desks.
Watch for help-wanted signs in store windows.
3.
Post the news that you're available for certain kinds of work on local bulletin boards.
Maybe your future employer isn't in the habit of looking for employees on bulletin boards, but someone who works for that employer might see your notice and pass the word along.
Malls, public libraries, community colleges, and large grocery stores are just a few of the places that encourage the posting of such notices.
Who knows, while you are posting your, "Work Wanted," item, you may stumble across one that says, "Help Wanted.
" 4.
Use a Unique Method of Drawing Attention to Your Need for a Job.
People have tried a number of unusual ways to draw attention to things that affect them.
We are all familiar with stories of those who have proposed by hiring a skywriter or donned chicken costumes to advertise outside a specialty chicken sandwich place.
If you have a dramatic flair, you might try wearing a reader board to broadcast your need for work.
Or, perhaps you're more the T-Shirt with a message type.
Some job-seekers have experienced success through running an ad in the local newspaper or by getting themselves interviewed on a local radio program.
Such activities would reach a much wider audience than those aimed at one particular business.
Put on your thinking cap and come up with a unique idea of your own.
You can do it.
Finally, don't just sit around waiting for a job to happen.
True, jobs sometimes seem to appear out of nowhere, but while you are waiting, consider creating a job for yourself to tide you over.
Taking a little time to review your skills may pay off in an idea for a business you can run from home, or at least make a little extra cash to help you get by until a full-time job does open up for you.