{"id":163,"date":"2008-09-09T08:04:02","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T15:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bradbushnell.com\/?p=163"},"modified":"2008-09-09T08:04:02","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T15:04:02","slug":"the-labor-department-hits-the-nail-on-the-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bradbushnell.com\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"The Labor Department: hits the nail on the head. . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was quite surprised, but pleasantly. . . that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/\">Labor Department<\/a> was dead on with how to approach a job search. \u00a0I recently came across a resource online and it suggests in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/oco\/oco20042.htm\">article<\/a> that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Directly contacting employers is one of the most successful means of job hunting. Through library and Internet research, develop a list of potential employers in your desired career field. Then call these employers and check their Web sites for job openings. Web sites and business directories can tell you how to apply for a position or whom to contact. Even if no open positions are posted, do not hesitate to contact the employer: You never know when a job might become available.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the value of services like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\">LinkedIn<\/a>. \u00a0It helps you to uncover whom might be approachable and allow you to dialog one-on-one. \u00a0If you initiate an inquiry via LinkedIn&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/static?key=business_info_more\">inmail service<\/a>, you have a point of context in which to follow up directly with specific managers. \u00a0There are plans which are <em>extremely <\/em>affordable and it&#8217;s worth it&#8217;s weight in gold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was quite surprised, but pleasantly. . . that the Labor Department was dead on with how to approach a job search. \u00a0I recently came across a resource online and it suggests in the article that: &#8220;Directly contacting employers is one of the most successful means of job hunting. Through library and Internet research, develop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-career-advice","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradbushnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradbushnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradbushnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradbushnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradbushnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradbushnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradbushnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradbushnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradbushnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}