In this instructional video, Natalie Fisher explains why the traditional job‑board approach often fails because 80‑90% of hires are made through personal connections. She outlines a three‑step strategy to tap into the hidden job market: (1) recognize that networking drives most hiring and use LinkedIn to identify and connect with people who are in similar roles or have hiring authority; (2) commit to consistent, high‑volume outreach—what she calls “massive action”—and understand that results compound over time; (3) leverage a free workshop she offers, which provides templates, tools, and a step‑by‑step process to turn casual coffee chats into genuine job‑helping relationships. Fisher emphasizes persistence, the compound effect of repeated networking, and provides resources to avoid sounding desperate while building real connections.
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In this video, I'm teaching you how to find hidden job opportunities if you are currently not having any luck with the job boards and the job sites. And if you want to ramp up your progress and get more job opportunities quickly, this video is for you, so stay tuned. All right, so the first thing is understanding how the game works. Every day, 80 to 90% of positions are being filled by someone's Someone's friend's husband or someone's friend's wife, somebody's family member, someone's past connection from a previous workplace. This is happening all the time. Yet you, my friend, and many others that I help are still applying for 100 jobs on the job sites and not seeing a very big reply rate to their resumes. So the first thing is to see that this is what's happening. Start to read articles, find the evidence for yourself that hidden job opportunities are what are worth investing your time into finding. And it's not that difficult once you know how to do it. 2, then if you're all ready to do this and you already know, you're like, okay, I understand this, then the case is how do you do it? You have to go and look for them. LinkedIn is hands down the best tool for this. You find these people, you find the people that you need to connect with. They're going to be either in similar positions to you or they're going to be able to hire you. They're going to be on LinkedIn. This is a strategy that you probably already have heard of. The thing is though that the strategy isn't nearly as important as my next point. So you have to be consistent and stay in massive action. So what I mean by massive action is you have to continue to reach out to people. So a lot of people will give up really easily. They'll be like, oh, I talked to somebody and they didn't hand me a job offer immediately, therefore it doesn't work. Yes, of course it didn't work. You stopped doing it. You didn't do it for long enough. The process doesn't work until it works. I did this myself, but this is how I landed some of my dream positions, was through making contact with people on a one-to-one basis. So that's why I feel so passionate about this and why I'm able to walk clients through this process as well. You just have to see that the path to success is there. A lot of people will take this path to success, but you won't hear all the coffee meetings that they went on or all the chats that they had. You'll just hear, oh, they made a connection, And they got a job offer, but you didn't see all the work that led up to it. There are a lot of conversations to be had, and it can be really fun to meet all these people, right? And not everyone has to result in a job offer for this process to work really well. But yes, it took quite a few actions. Yes, the actions are gonna be more effective than applying to 100 jobs on a site where you're not actually gonna make human contact. So even if when you start doing this, you might say it's not working, you need to understand the big picture. Okay, and the idea of the compound effect. When you continue to do something, you will start to see momentum, and you will start to understand more and more about how the game works, and your next steps will start to unfold. So you don't need to see the entire staircase to the top, you just need to see the next step, and then you need to take it, and more things will start opening up for you. If you want to learn more about exactly how you can start accessing these opportunities and how you can start to access the hidden job opportunities that are right in front of your nose, you can sign up for a free workshop I put together called How to Get Endless Opportunities in Your Job Hunt Even If You Currently Have No Contacts. On this workshop, you're going to get the 3 biggest mistakes that most people make when they're trying to network for a job and why most people fail and give up pretty quickly, the 4 things that you actually need to be successful in networking for job opportunities, the exact template that I use to get opportunities without sounding desperate or graspy or needy. The 3 tools, when used together, create powerful synergistic strategy that opens up doors for you right away. And how to take a relationship from a casual coffee into a real conversation that's a real connection who's really inspired to actually help you. So all you need to do is click below, the link is there. It's absolutely free so you can start watching it right away, and I look forward to seeing you on the training. If this video resonated with you, give me a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel. Find me over at nataliefisher.ca if you want to check out more information or more content from me. That's where you'll find me. And I'll also be back here on YouTube for another video in a few days. So thanks for watching, and I'll see you next time.
