The first 2 hours of the day are the door to achievement. You're fresh. Do the tough stuff then. Let the rote activities fall to the afternoon when you're more on automatic.
One articles suggests checking Facebook or LinkedIn for job hunting while at work. Very bad idea. If your employer catches you doing that, you may well be able to job hunt 40 hours a week.
Online Networking
Follow on Twitter the key decision makers of the company you're targeting.
The new networking opportunity--Google+. Posts can be restricted to certain "circles" so professional networkers don't see news about your son's basketball triumph.
Length of Unemployment
The government, hard at work, has calculated the percentage chance you'll find a job if you're been out of work so many weeks. Maybe we should add a couple of government statisticians to the unemployment roll.
One web site writes the jobs "crisis is virtually over." Apparently they didn't see the June numbers. Oddly the comments for the page are closed. "There are no icebergs ... "
The Wall Street Journal (who didn't get the memo about the crisis being over) writes you have to go back to the 1940s to find such long periods of unemployment.
Stanislaus County, California has a 17.2% unemployment rate--same as it was a year ago.
Noted
1,862 applications, 3 years and no job offers. It's time to change the approach. Maybe filing only 1.7 applications a day allows her to deep-research each company and network with people inside.
But I wonder how you effectively network with 1,862 insiders. Remember--if you haven't had give and take with a decision maker on the inside, filing an application is nearly worthless.
A job search is all about sales. If you don't know about sales, you need to read some of the myriad how to books. (If you turn out to be good here, that's a whole new job field to explore!)
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