How to Find a Job: It’s Not What You Think

First, and most importantly, get off social media. People often come to me demoralized after they have applied to dozens of jobs on social media platforms and haven’t heard back from any of them. The reasons why are (1) the job listings on these platforms are receiving hundreds, perhaps even thousands of applications, (2) the applications are being reviewed by AI algorithms, not humans, and (3) when a person applies to so many jobs, they probably don’t use the exact right keywords to precisely f...