We’ve explained in the previous post what the hidden job market is: It’s the fact that most jobs are filled by employers hiring people they trust, or the recommendations of people they trust. Now if most jobs are filled this way, it would stand to reason that you’d want to jump on this bandwagon. So how can you take advantage of the hidden job market?
Listen carefully, because tapping the hidden job market is the ultimate Job Hack. It is the #1 most effective approach in landing the job of your dreams in a relatively short timespan.
Let’s work backwards: If the hidden job market is a hiring manager reaching out to someone they trust, then to tap the hidden job market, you need to be someone that hiring managers know and trust. And if the hiring manager is asking trusted colleagues for recommendations, then you need to be someone that the hiring managers’ colleagues know and trust.
“But how am I supposed to become someone all these people know and trust?” you ask. How, indeed. That is the Job Hacking million-dollar question.
And that is where Job Hacking shines – it allows you to become that person. The person that people in your industry know and trust. You can become the person that everyone would rather hire than all the random people of the internet.
In the next post, we’ll introduce you to the foundation of Job Hacking that will allow you to achieve this goal.