How To Find Unadvertised Jobs

Uh, so the answer to &#x27;how to find the unadvertised job&#x27; is &#x27;look at company websites&#x27; or &#x27;do google searches&#x27;?<p>I haven&#x27;t been in the job market for years, so I don&#x27;t have a great answer, but these seem pretty weak ways to find jobs that aren&#x27;t advertised, because, if they are on company websites or available via Taleo, they <i>are</i> advertised.<p>How about:<p><pre><code> * research a company, find out their biggest problem (competitive research), find the manager who should be tackling the problem (linked in), and email him an outline of a solution. I don&#x27;t manage a ton of folks, but if someone did this, we&#x27;d definitely have a conversation. * go to tech meetups and meeting interesting people * comment on a corporate blog regularly * offer to work for free (if you can afford it) * ABL (always be looking) * never eat lunch along * blog about the industry you want to get into * work on an open source project * instagram (or whatever the kids are doing these days) </code></pre> This is an oldie instance that one of my friends did to get hired back before the dotcom bubble: <a href="http://donwrege.com/XOR/home.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;donwrege.com&#x2F;XOR&#x2F;home.html</a>

<i>&quot; When you see a job posted on (insert leading job board name here) somebody paid to have it advertised there. You know where it’s free for a company to post all of their jobs? Come on, guess… If you suspected a company’s own careers website, you would be correct!&quot;</i><p>If somebody paid for it recently, it is a strong signal they really have an opening. Jobs on companies&#x27; own sites might only be there to:<p>a) show to customers and investors the company is in good shape.<p>b) keep their recruitment buffers filled just in case.<p>I&#x27;ve been through jobs in companies with &quot;no recruitment&quot; enforced due to budget cuts and guess what, the job ads on their sites were still there.

Well this is unfortunate: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/41Yn4ye.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;41Yn4ye.png</a>

At least within the area of the UK which I lived in until recently the idea that there are lots of unadvertised jobs is a myth. When I was unemployed I did the experiment of applying both via &quot;the usual channels&quot; and also speculatively based upon fairly elaborate analysis to try to identify suitable organisations. The number of &quot;conversions&quot; - which means inquiries turning into job interviews - was vastly higher for the usual channels, with very few companies responding to speculative inquiries.

Isn&#x27;t it better to let a recruitment company do the hard work for you?<p>In a technical job market there are recruitment consultants that know all of the companies, what might work for you and where there might be a need. In my experience they do provide a very good service. However, we tend to dislike them when they are not needed so we might overlook them as our first point of call.

It could be a waste of your resources, because many such listings are actually not designed to lure good qualified prospects, they have a completely opposite intent - lure idiots and unqualified people. Even if you apply, they&#x27;ll talk to you, then talk again, then disqualify you on some ridiculous grounds.<p>I&#x27;m talking about Green Card PERM process in these companies. The law mandates them to advertise, but their intent is to prove to the DOL that there&#x27;s no adequate candidates around. They _already have_ someone for this position, moreover, this person (most likely) already occupies this position, they just started his&#x2F;her GC process.

Taleo makes a great job making it as painful as possible to search and apply for jobs. I find it pretty funny a &quot;hack&quot; of how to look through taleo listings is in an article about unadvertised jobs.

I was expecting a post that told you to &quot;get off your lazy ass and look for some in your area&quot;. Instead, I got a primer on Google search operators.

In my experience &#x27;Option one&#x27; is not so bad. You need different industry directories (not just &quot;yellow pages&quot;) to find most relevant companies and then contact them. Laborious but better than being one in a hundred applicants.

Can&#x27;t you just used Indeed.com? I thought every major ATS allows you to submit your job listings to Indeed.com and similar sites.