If you're looking to get a job fast, whether it's because you have to or want to, in today's "high-tech" society with its "high-tech" mentality, it's real easy to overlook some tried-and-true "low-tech" sources of fast jobs...

Here are three of the best:

Fast Job Source #1 - People You Know

Studies have shown that as many as 80% of all jobs are gotten via "networking". In other words, they're obtained through people they know, in one way or another, not through online or offline advertising. If the results of those studies are true, which personal experience tells me they are, and you want to get a job fast, the people you know may well be your single best job source.

So, if you want to get a job fast, your absolute best bet is to call, not email or text message, *CALL* everyone you know:

- Friends...

- Relatives...

- Neighbors...

- Acquaintances...

- People you know from clubs and organizations...

- Former co-workers, and even...

- Former employers...

If you left them on good terms that is. :-)

Let them know you're looking for a job, ask them if they know of any openings, and, if they don't, if they could ask the people they know, who you don't, if they do (make sure you follow-up with them if they say they will).

Fast Job Source #2 - Newspapers

Believe it or not, there are many small business owners, the largest creators of jobs there are, who can barely turn on a computer, let alone post a job listing online. Thus, they still rely on good old-fashioned newspapers to advertise job openings.

The employment or "help wanted" section of the good old Sunday newspaper is still one of the best sources of job openings there is, but don't ignore the daily, weekly, monthly, and even the "shopper" type papers as they're often equally as good, sometimes even better, sources.

Fast Job Source #3 - Signs

Just the other day, I was talking with a gal who told me, "I can't find a job anywhere, no one's hiring." "Do you ever go to __________?" I asked her. "Yea, I go there every morning," she said. "What about __________?" I asked. "I'm in there once or twice a week," she replied.

"Well," I told her, "both of them have great big signs on their doors that read *Now Hiring*."

Her somewhat sheepish reply?

"Oh, I didn't see them."

Why didn't she see them, you ask?

Simple...

She wasn't looking for them. :-)

My advice?

Don't let that be you!

Many small businesses, again the largest creators of jobs there are, never go beyond word-of-mouth, newspaper ads, and/or "help wanted" signs to get all the help they need. Therefore, you'd be foolish to overlook these sources of fast jobs.

Copyright (c) 2010 Tony Mase