TJ Walker says job seekers waste time on online applications. If you're spending more than 5% of your job search time submitting resumes, you're doing it wrong. Real networking, coffee meetings with contacts, and industry events should be where you focus.
If you think job hunting is clicking and sending and sitting behind a computer, you're not living in reality. Now, sure, some people have gotten lucky that way in the past, but if you're spending more than 5% of your job hunting time clicking and sending resumes, you're wasting your time. You need to be out talking to people, meeting people in the real world, going to lunches, having coffees with friends you went to high school or college with, trying to connect with people in industry, going to free industry events if you can find them. Ultimize.
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