What and where are the hidden jobs?

There is a regular routine that unemployed people go through when looking for a job. They search the want ads, then they search the online job sites and then they may search through some company’s websites to see if they are hiring. That’s fine but you need to add another resource in your job hunting routine, looking for the hidden jobs.


As you would expect hidden jobs are not advertised. You wouldn’t find them in the want ads or the big job sites. Who knows about these jobs? At first it will just be the people at the company that is looking to fill a particular position. Often times companies don’t immediately advertise that they are looking for an employee. In fact they may not even say that they are hiring, what they mean is they aren’t adding any jobs to the company but they still need to fill any position that has recently become vacant.

So how do you find out about these jobs?

The first thing that you need to do is to assess your skills. Then you need to make a list of companies that ordinarily use the skills that you have. Don’t be put off if the company has laid off people recently or if you have heard that they aren’t hiring. Once again, they may need to fill a job opening and you may have the skills that they need.

Who do I contact?

Call the company or look at their website and see if you can find a name of someone ( a manager in a department that you feel you would fit in to) to speak to or send an email to. I know this may be difficult for most people but during these tough times you have to do the difficult things to find a job.