Yep. According to the NY Times (the job market section of which I check
every Sunday), roughly 80% of all the professional positions never get
advertised. The people who land them get turned onto the position by their
friends. The PC term for this is "networking." Another way to put it is
that you can land a decent job if you're lucky.

In my experience, networking has very little to do with luck.

Some people call it "schmoozing" -- but in real life, networking is a lot of
hard, sometimes crappy, work, and is often associated with glad-handing
people you would just as soon not deal with.

In this way it's a lot like "customer service" -- except that *you* are the
ultimate customer.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"