Creative job search ideas anyone?

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Any and all ideas welcome!

I've been looking for a job (in desultory fashion, I have to admit) for about a month now and I've just decided I need to step up my search. I've registered with the main agencies in my field (not going to go into what I do, it's very boring though) and I've bought the paper a couple of times and er, that's it! So I've just decided I need to get dynamic and proactive and all that but my brain is addled due to small baby (I know, will I get anything anyway?) and I just can't think what other approaches to take. Any bright ideas? I've been very lucky in that most of my jobs over the past 15 years have been down to someone I know calling me and saying "fancy this?" but I've been a sahm for a while and apart from one brief job hunt last year (applied for a specific advertised job, got it, turned it down as was pregnant and didn't want to relocate just then) I haven't had to look like this for years. TIA for any suggestions.

I'm sure you've already thought of this but if you were feeling particularly brave and/or bored you could find out the names and numbers of all the companies you could potentially work for and contact their H.R. depts directly. Find out who the contact would be for your area of work and speak to them about your skills, where they advertise vacancies etc.

The thing I've found about agencies is that you need to ring them every couple of days to find out if they have vacancies. This way you get to hear about the vacancies as they come in but also familiarises your name with them so they think of you first.

I'm also looking for a new job (public sector) but have limited my search to the local paper and jobs go public web site.

Good luck.

Apologies for the excessive use of the word 'vacancies'!

Don't know if it would help or not, but when dh was looking for a new job, we found the vast majority of recruitment agencies he tried to be totally useless. I could email you the address of the one he eventually used, who was really good, but it may be that because you're different fields that he would only be able to get you an engineering job! Let me know if you would like his details and I'll mail them to you.

www.reed.co.uk is good

so is monster.co.uk

What sort of job are you after and where do you live?

Look at hotrecruit.com

About 10 years when I moved to a new area, I wrote to all the solicitors in my area telling that I was available for work. I sent out about 20 letters and got 2 interviews and 1 job (which I took) out of it.

HTH and Good luck

Research the sorts of companies you want to work for, then look at their websites. Almost all of them adverises online these days.

Thanks for these ideas. Will attempt to put my back into looking today.