Smart ways to find a job

By Jeff Altman, Big Game Hunter

EP 3083 Are you tired of staring at thousands of irrelevant results, wasting time scrolling, and feeling frustrated because the way you’re looking for a job doesn’t work? Stop casting a wide net and discover Smart search methoda simple yet incredibly powerful technique designed to strategically revolutionize the way you job search.

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Okay, let’s talk about finding a job next. If you’re in the middle of it, I want you to pause everything you’ve been doing because we’re about to introduce a super simple but honestly very powerful technique that will revolutionize your searches. This is the so-called intelligent search method. Sound familiar? You know what to do. You open a job site, enter a job title, and see thousands of results. You spend hours, even days, just scrolling and clicking, and finally, you realize that most of them don’t fit. It’s draining. This is a huge waste of time. To be honest, this can be very frustrating. But what if the problem isn’t jobs themselves, but how we find them? That’s it. The secret isn’t to show up at every job platform, nor is it to cast this huge net and hope for the best. No. The real key is to have a strategy.

It’s all about focusing your efforts on the two most important platforms and learning how to master them. So that brings us to the power duo for the modern job seeker. On the one hand, you have Google. Think of it like a giant job magnet. It collects lists from various places like the internet, company websites, job boards, etc. and puts them all in one place. Then you have LinkedIn. This is the largest professional gathering place in the world, right? Companies go directly there to post jobs, looking for very specific people. When you focus on just these two, you get an amazing combination of huge reach and super direct access. Okay, you’ve narrowed down your platforms. Great. But it can still bring you thousands of jobs. So, how do you find the really good stuff, the hidden gems? Well, this is where the real magic happens.

We’ll unleash the power of filters to cut through all the noise and get straight to the role that’s right for you. The best part is, it’s broken down into this very simple three-step strategy that you can use over and over again. As a first step, simply select your platform for this search session. Do you use Google or LinkedIn? In the second step, enter your target persona. Step three, and this is an absolute game changer, apply the key filter. So, what’s in this kit? These filters are about to become your new best friends. Let’s take a look at them. List the dates. It’s all about gaining a competitive advantage. If you filter for jobs posted in the past 24 hours, you’ll be among the first to see it. Job types are very simple. Whatever you want, you can filter for full-time contracts. Experience level is critical. If you are an advanced professional, it prevents you from wasting time looking at entry-level content and vice versa.

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Of course, remote or hybrid can help you find a job that truly fits your life. When you start combining these, you can turn a sea of ​​work into a perfectly curated list of opportunities. Okay, so you do all this. You focus your search. You have the filter. What’s the real point? What’s the biggest reward here? Well, it all comes down to achieving a simple but extremely important goal. That’s the word, relevance. The point of this whole approach is to stop looking for any job and start surgically looking for relevant work. We’re talking about roles that are a true match for your skills, your background, and what you really want to do next in your career. This is how you stop standing still and start making real progress. So the ultimate advantage here is speed and accuracy. If you do it right, you’ll continually find the freshest, best-matching jobs.

You’re not just looking for opportunities, you’re identifying them early, often before the influx of applications. This gives you a huge advantage in a market that is always competitive. So, I guess now that you have a smart search method, there’s only one real question left to ask. Now that you know the secret, what incredible opportunity will you discover first? Your perfect job is definitely out there. Now you know how to find it.

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