Comments | team_unemployed: recently underemployed, contemplating a drop-in strategy?

milkhoney in team_unemployed

recently underemployed, contemplating a drop-in strategy?

Jul 13, 2009 09:39

has anyone had any luck literally pounding the pavement and dropping their resume off in various places? (for me, anyway, it would be non-profits, museums, event planning/ pr agencies). i've been doing the online thing and sending out a bunch of cover letters... and spectacularly, very few responses. i've never encountered this issue before, but ( Read more... )

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placetohide July 13 2009, 16:56:56 UTC

I'm not sure gratification is the word I'd use... more like discouragement, haha.

wyrmwwd July 13 2009, 19:08:39 UTC

I did this back in 1975 and it worked. Oh... I did end up recently getting an opportunity to teach some classes at a retail store by doing this... I walked in, started a conversation with the owner, and ended up saying "You know... I could teach some classes on this here". So, I have a little part time gig on Saturday nights, but not a real job yet.

mari_mac1109 July 13 2009, 19:40:04 UTC

A good friend of mine just did this (I think a good fifty resumes a day, at least two or three days?) to a ton of restaurants in Chicago. She got interviews at two, hired at none of them.

She found a really good fit for her and ended up driving that one home. She started a week ago after about a month of job fretting.

Obviously, your mileage may vary! At the very least, it'll give you a better idea of what's out there if you have to look and then hoof it to drop off a bunch of resumes?

chordoflife July 14 2009, 00:44:41 UTC

Locally, this strategy hasn't worked, but I am tempted to try it out when I go to NC, where, ironically, I am networking to get a job. So far I have been cold-calling, which has been a dismal failure but for the one informal meeting I have with a CEO in August when down there. Right now, my advice would be to do some selective cold-calling rather then just dropping in, but if you are getting positive responses, might be worth it to try it out for a few weeks.

rin_x_x July 14 2009, 03:30:13 UTC

A lot of my friends have done this with no luck. They only got jobs because they knew someone who worked there and whether there were openings or not.

I don't count one of my friend's job at Canadian Tire that I drove him too because I don't necessarily count it as "pounding the pavement". This CT was out of the way and he thought it was a good place to get a job because it was in a part of town that a lot of new buisnesses (including this CT) were popping up and he got lucky.