How To Find a Job Before The Job Description is Written
September 9, 2010 
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One sure way to get a jump on your job hunting competitors is to apply for work before the job description is even written. How does one do that? Simple. Look for news stories that feature companies that are planning to make massive hires! More than likely if a company is going to hire hundreds of people at a time, they are not going to post those hundreds of jobs on job boards at once (especially in this economy).
What then? Network with people who work at those companies and send in your resume ahead of time to Recruiters. In this way, you get to be among the first in line.
Food for thought, check out the news stories below:
100+ Jobs pending in Cary, North Carolina
500+ Jobs pending in Dallas, TX
20+ Jobs pending in Saginaw, MI
100+ Jobs pending in Orlando, FL
240+ Jobs pending in VA
Jobs pending in Costa Mesa, CA
80 Jobs pending in CA
600 Jobs pending in Ohio
350 Jobs pending in Oregon
Jobs pending in Los Angeles, CA
500 Jobs pending in Louisianna
200 Jobs pending in Michigan
100 Jobs pending in Ohio
100 Jobs pending in Puerto Rico
190 Jobs pending in Ohio
850 Jobs pending in Lexington, KY
In case you are wondering how I came up with this list, I did a search on Google News.
I searched Google News in the following way:
What the search means is that I am asking Google to search the title of news stories for the terms “Is hiring” or the term “New Jobs.” The results were the ones that I shared above. If I wanted to refine my searches a bit more so that I am looking at jobs in a certain area, I would add a city or state. For example… intitle:is.hiring | intitle:new.jobs ohio
If I wanted to refine it further, I could show news posted in the past hour, day, week, month, et cetera by clicking the links on the left side of the screen.
Oh! One thing I notice about this strategy is that timing is everything. Since these are news articles, some of these leads may be still listed whereas others might have expired and still others might be in the archives of a site and as such, a subscription might be required to see it. Just fyi…
If you found this type of info useful, let me know and I may do more. Just let me know…
Happy Job Hunting!
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Never thought of doing this but it sure makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the great tip. Hope not too many people read this, LOL.
Hahaha… Thanks!
The articles in the Resume Bear Blog are one of the reasons Resume Bear will become the #1 employment service in the world.
Even better than approaching a recruiter is to get introduced by a mutual contact to a hiring decision manager who has the budgetary authority to hire for the job you are targeting, The personal recommendation goes a long way towards establishing credibility and establishing that you seriously are interested, not just spamming your resume here and yon. You can distinguish yourself as a go getter ( have drive and take initiative) by being among the first to express interest in a new opportunity. This can often be a competitive advantage and well worth the additional effort of catching an opening before it is posted.
Some good advice about thinking outside the box, also I’ve known some talented people that created positions where non existed because they demonstated how it would benefit the company.
This is a great article becuase when you are looking for work,you need all the info you can get to be out front!!!
jimmy
We’re working on incorporating these news stories into our product.
We also find that quite often jobs are tweeted well before a job description is written or a job is posted. To find “hiring” tweets use this string: just replace job title country and city to find job tweets about companies that are hiring.
http://www.twitjobsearch.com/search?q=hiring+sales+manager&city=Chicago&country=United+States
Thank you for this one Jim! A lot of people are not aware of how to fine-tune their Google search to narrow done to the relevant results. I am happy to re-tweet this one. Hopefully members in my network will read and put it into practice!
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Good and excellence idea
Being proactive in your job search is ALWAYS a good idea. Some of the best positions available are those not yet advertised. Such an attitude is not only practical; it also sheds great light on your character and shows a prospective employer the type of employee you will be.
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This is common sense approach to what is available in your area. If you are in the market for that “next opportunity”, I would think this would be a daily activity that should be utilized.
This is absolutely brilliant. So often, the most profound tips are those that are simple and straightforward. Thanks for sharing!