Methods for hunting invisible Position

Most of them use proven and well-known job search techniques:

 through job-search sites on the Internet;

 view ads in the newspapers;

 telephone calls of friends and acquaintances;

 social networks;

 treatment in employment agencies.

For mid-level in most industries such methods produce results. But with the growth of unemployment, this result will come less frequently and for longer.

Increased competition in the labor market will require new, unconventional ways to job search in the coming months. Especially for rare specialists and top managers. The fact that there is a huge invisible job market, information about which is not published in the media and the Internet. According to various sources, in the press and the Internet are not advertised vacancies 50-70%, and in some areas the percentage of "hidden jobs" reaches 100%.

How and why there are hidden job?

1. Conservatism and saving employers. Many managers prefer to attract candidates from among acquaintances, friends, acquaintances, friends and relatives of their own and their employees. It is assumed that such people are already known to be loyal to the company. Well, the search costs are minimal.

2. Confidentiality. Many employers do not like to advertise vacancies. This is especially true positions of top managers with "redistribution of power" in the company. Or the development of new lines of business secret from competitors.

3. Unconscious necessity. Jobs as such yet. The problem of the company is, but the need for a new employee supervisor has not yet realized. However, if there is a person who declares - "I know this problem and to undertake to solve it," he can make an offer.

4. A well-working with the staff: timely improvement, relocation, training. Skillful management of internal personnel reserve. In such cases, on the part of experts considered a last resort. Still considered.

5. Poor staged work with the staff. Banal reasons: irregular update job sites, negligence or change HR-manager, "not reached" the leadership of the formulation requirements, hope to "link" the head, and more.

6. Election. There is traditionally inaccessible "to other people's" sphere of activity, where people are not made to look "outside": show-business and media, hairdressing and modeling, medicine and some other areas.

7. All his. A job can be opened in a narrow sector, where "everyone knows each other." Publication of vacancies could affect the company's reputation or cause unnecessary discussions among competitors.

How to hunt for the hidden job?

There are two main ways:

1. To trust art. Attract recruiters for individual job search. Especially because such a service under different names ( "Personal Shopper career" or "Individual job search") are already starting to have some agencies. Those who timely re-classified from "Headhunters" in "job hunters." It turns out some Headhunting vice versa.

2. Engage in hunting for most employers. Here too you will have to show many of its useful features:

 analytical skills, gathering information about the most attractive employers;

 resourcefulness to calculate the contact decision-makers;

 communication skills to persuade these persons to its usefulness;

 initiative and perseverance in the contacts to achieve the goal.

The work will be jewelry and point. Indisputable advantage: competition applicants for a job is incomparably lower than posted on the Internet.

Thus, beaten the thesis that the "Search for work - also work" will ring out for you in a different way: "Search for hidden jobs - a special job."