This document provides job seeking advice in 3 steps: 1) Make a list of all past business contacts and call them to ask for job opportunities or references. Do not leave voicemails or emails. 2) Visit every staffing agency in your area weekly with updated resumes to build personal relationships with recruiters. 3) Expand your network by volunteering and visiting local employment offices and workforce development boards to find job leads and training programs.

1. YOU WILL NOT FIND “IT” SITTING AT HOME
(IT = YOUR NEXT JOB)

2. THERE IS
WORK TO BE
DONE!
•Make a list of every person
and/or company that you have
done business with, and their
phone number. Not their email!
Their Phone Number!
•Google the company number if
you don’t have it. Use the
Yellow pages to get their home
number.

3. BE DILIGENT!
▪ Make a personal phone call to each and every person on your list
▪ If the person does not answer, leave a message, asking them to
call you back. ( do not leave any other details)
▪ Once they call you back ask them for a job and/or if they know of
any job opportunities. You have to ASK!
▪ DO NOT! I REPEAT DO NOT began to tell the person how long
you’ve been looking for a job and giving them a sob story. An
employer wants people with a good attitude, not more sad
stories! And, they certainly do not want to refer someone that’s
stuck in the past.
▪ Every time you speak with a family member, church member,
bank teller, convenience store operator, waitress ask them for a MAKE THE CALLS!
job, or if they know of anyone hiring. Every time? YES! You are
forming a job hunting team and they are your posse. People
really do want to help you.

4. GET OUT OF
THE HOUSE!
•You have spent enough
time emailing applications
and sitting in your pajama’s.

5. ▪ BE INDUSTRIOUS!
▪ Find every Staffing Agency in your area.
▪ Go to their website, set up and complete their customer profile. (This can
be done at home, but don’t make it an excuse to stay home.)
▪ Now go visit every Staffing Agency you identified and have an updated
resume with you. (You should have at least 20 copies when you leave the
house.)
▪ Go visit those same Staffing Agencies EVERY WEEK! Do not call them to
check in. Go visit them in person. Let them put a name to face. Make it
personal!
HARD FACT #1: A lot Employers use Staffing Agency’s when hiring
HARD FACT #2: Staffing Agency’s talk to over 600 people a week.
Who do you think they are going to remember? Your
voice out of 200? Or your voice because you came
into their office every week and had an actual GET OUT
conversation with them.
OF THE HOUSE!
“Squeaky wheel gets the oil.”

6. VOLUNTEER!
VISIT!
•Be useful
•Meet more people
•Expand your skills & your network

7. BE ACTIVE!
▪ Visit your local Employment Office
▪ Google your local Workforce Development Board and call them
too. (Never heard of a Workforce Development Board or
Workforce Investment Board? Don’t worry most other people
haven‘t either. Trust me! Call them! They have on-the-job-
training funding that may benefit you and an employer.)
▪ Volunteer while you are looking for a job. This will look good on a
resume and provide even more networking opportunities to let
folks know you need a real job.
 6 Degrees of Separation: The idea that everyone is six or fewer steps
away, by way of introduction, from any other person in the world, so VISIT!
that a chain of "a friend of a friend" statements can be made to
connect any two people in a maximum of six steps. VOLUNTEER!

8. There is Work to Get out of
Volunteer! Visit!
be Done! the House!
YOU CAN DO THIS! START NOW!
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