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Launch Your Career
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Launch Your Career

by Sean O'Keefe
May 2021
Beginner
240 pages
4h 26m
English
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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PART 1

How to Access the Hidden Job Market

Most students are shocked when they discover that only 20% of all job opportunities are posted online.1 And that doesn’t mean that your school’s online job platform posts only 20% of available jobs. It means all of the job websites in the world, combined, represent only 20% of available jobs, internships, and research positions. You might be skeptical of that statistic at first, as I was, but if you talk to professionals and look at research, you’ll realize that it’s true. People like to hire people they know or people their colleagues know. As a college student or recent graduate, your biggest challenge in the job search process is to become known by the right people at organizations where you want ...

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