Job Hunting Approaches and Success Rates

A friend and I found the following information from a variety of resources. Mull this information over - are you using your job search time in the most beneficial way?

SUCCESS RATES JOB HUNTING APPROACH
86% Creative approach - self reflection, company research, identifying the decision maker, interviewing

69% - 84% Cold call from the yellow pages

47% Cold call by walking into a business and speaking with the key decision maker

33% Talking to friends, family and neighbors

14% Working with government agencies (employment security commissions within each state)

12% Talking to former teachers

8% Working with a union hall

5-7% Responding to classified ads

7% Responding to a trade journal

5-24% Private agencies (but you will need to call them every day in order for them to remember you. Remember - temp and private agencies are dealing with hundreds if not thousands, of people right now).

1-7% Using the Internet