Harry Wallop

And that sounds awful.

And it is awful in many ways.

But were they 500 well-considered applications where you really thought, am I the right person for this job?

Yes, yes.

And some people recommend the old ways are the best ways, sometimes turning up in person in the lot, you know, working.

Well, there's two ways.

You either get the very old fashioned way, which is literally turning up to the office and the company you really want to work for.

And you say, I really want to work for you and you work out who it is you need to speak to.

And most people will be quite impressed by that.

And they won't think that's kind of weird.

And they might give you the time of day to speak to you.

But the other one is just to be a bit more intelligent.

You can do this digitally.

You know, there's a lot of people recommend go.

You can go around the back door.

I mean, LinkedIn, lots of people loathe LinkedIn for very good reasons.

But nearly every single company and every single executive is on there.

So you work out who is the key person and you message them and say, I would love to meet you.

Don't say, I want it necessarily.

I want a job tomorrow.