Benjamin Todd

All the best advice we could find on how to get a job.

When it comes to advice on how to get a job, most of it is pretty bad.

1.

College feed suggests that you be confident as their first interview tip, which is a bit like suggesting you should be employable.

2.

Many advisors cover the clean your nails and have a firm handshake kind of thing.

3.

One of the most popular interview videos on YouTube, with over 8 million views, makes the wise point that you definitely mustn't sit down until you're explicitly invited to do so by the interviewer.

Who could ever recover from taking a seat a few seconds too early?

Over the years, we've sifted through a lot of bad advice to find the nuggets that are actually good.

We've also provided one-on-one coaching to thousands of people who are applying for jobs and hired about 30 people ourselves, so we've seen what works from both sides.

Here we'll sum up what we've learned.

Let's be blunt.

You're not entitled to a job, and hiring is rarely fair.

Rather, getting a job is, at root, a sales process.

you need to persuade someone to give you responsibility and a salary and even put their reputation on the line in exchange for results.

We'll list key advice for each stage of the sales process.

One, finding opportunities, leads.

Two, convincing employers, conversion.

And three, negotiating.