ABSTRACT
When it comes to a strategy for job hunting, the received wisdom from career practitioners is generally that people should put more time in to looking for more jobs in more ways (for example, Nelson Bolles 2012). There is, of course, a lot of common sense in this advice but in this chapter we are going to look beyond our instinct to examine the empirical evidence. We will introduce the topic by looking at three different ways to conceptualize job hunting strategies and then go on to look at what determines the specific types of strategy that individuals adopt. In the second section, we will examine which job seeking strategies are the most effective and end with some ideas for incorporating this information into practice.
