<story><title>How to get hired</title><url>http://sivers.org/gethired</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>euroclydon</author><text>What is so good about this? It&apos;s straight out of the getting hired 101 stuff that most folks heard in college.&lt;p&gt;What about spending your time becoming someone worth hiring? Then moving to an area where they are hiring folks who do what you do? I could see the advice in the article working for a non-technical person, like a sales guy, but who is that passionate about working? &quot;My dream is to come into your office five days a week and sit at one of your desks and &lt;i&gt;work&lt;/i&gt;!&quot;&lt;p&gt;This is just more propaganda from hiring managers with a financial stake in the hire. How are you going to negotiate salary after begging for a job for three months?&lt;p&gt;My advice: do what you love doing, whether in your current company, or in your copious unemployed time, then present yourself as someone who is very good at X; don&apos;t beg.</text></comment>
<story><title>How to get hired</title><url>http://sivers.org/gethired</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>frossie</author><text>Good grief. I guarantee you that if anybody contacted me every week asking if I have an unadvertised job for them, I&apos;d file them in the &quot;stalker&quot; folder.</text></comment>