Penetrate the Hidden Job Market.
A job seeker can creatively use the vast power of the Internet to discover job opportunities that are not advertised or posted. Set aside your reliance on the conventional digital flesh markets long enough to understand and use the Hidden Job Market Principle: at any given moment 80% of the available opportunities in the nation are not publicly advertised! With the rampant proliferation of digital resumes it is perhaps more important than ever to go for the unadvertised jobs: those that are the part of internal growth, new processes and new priorities. Especially given that hiring from web job services is less than 7% of the total.

In using the Internet to research opportunities not yet announced, or only known internally you watch different media and pay attention to industry news, contact the authors of papers or articles, tap industry sources and find ways to stay ahead of the curve as companies plot their futures.

Action: Find out about opportunities in organizations before the jobs are posted or perhaps even well defined. Create your own private job market.