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You should be able to think of many ways to distribute the callback card as you’re out and around. It’s intended for callbacks only, but wait until you start passing them out. People will start interviewing you standing up! Just be a pest about it. Walk up to likely offerors and say, “Gee. You look successful! I want to be just like you. How about taking a few minutes of your precious time to talk about yourself?” (Well, not exactly like that—but you could do worse!)

The cumulative impact of passing out the callback card is staggering. A week or two and you’ll want to tape a label on the voice mail playback button that reads Callbacks!

Do 15: Interviewing Instantly over the Internet

Here’s how to rev up your own personal job search engine to run 24/7:

Prospect online. Automatically. Even while you sleep!

Outing the Offerors

It’s a lot like looking for a date. You’ll attract two types of suitors:

Locals

There are tons of great offerors in your community that only show up online. They do this because it’s cheap and it looks efficient. They frequently offer jobs to consider even if they (say they) pay less than you’re asking. (There’s no law against considering. I do it considerably.)

Locate them online. I’ll tell you how shortly. Pursue them like an Internet stalker. These are hot leads because they live where you live. You know their customers. You know their territory. You don’t have to relocate.

When you appear like a genie (Do 1), you’ll be offered far more because you’re far better than they imagined.

And then their imaginations go wild!

Out-of-Towners

You might know someone who met her dream lover through an online dating service. Then left her old life behind and moved away with him. It happens with dream jobs, too. Actually, more often.

There’s literally a working world of opportunity out there. Relocating is fine with employers—until you bring up reimbursement of moving expenses. Meet, then retreat if necessary. Maybe you’ll be willing to invest in the opportunity. Lots of employers don’t reject out-of-town candidates. Their attitude is “show up and let’s talk.” (We’ll discuss how to get reimbursed for a scouting trip in Do 60.)

It takes a bit more practice to work the out-of-towners, but not all that much. You’ll be glad you learned how to do it.

Spearing Search Engines

There’s another way Internet job banks work like online dating services. Their computers search for matches of keywords. The words in the profile and preferences you provide are matched with words describing qualifications and features of jobs. The exact words. So, if your profile contains only “engineer” but theirs refers to the job only as “engineering administration,” the match might not occur.

It’s a preposterous premise, but you’re gonna love it for what it presumes. Global businesses have built these information superhighways that run right through the jobjungle. It’s an electronic Autobahn. Highly efficient and f-a-s-t.

Only the natives don’t drive! How funny is that? They watch and wave from high above in the trees, from behind bushes, and on the ground inside camouflaged huts.

But it’s the instant interviewer’s Internet. You own it. You can make it work for you.

That’s because you’re not focused on jobs. All you’re interested in is interviews. Big difference. Instant, life-changing difference.

Feed the jungle beast what it loves—keywords. Lots of keywords!

Think of every variant of every term that could describe your dream job.

Register at a job web site and then use an electronic resume.

The right resume—with the right keywords—will have you lookin’ for love in all the right places, all the time.

You’ll be like a headhunter in heat, sleeping with one eye open. All you want is to attract those offerors, then pounce.

Finding Offerors Online

It’s easy. Just go to any search engine and key in: “resume database services.” The hottest new web addresses will jump right up—usually in the order of the ones that get the most hits.

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