Fragment 3 - Applying for jobs

The 5 search agents that I had set up resulted in daily e-mails with job postings.

Having gone through them I sent applications to the most relevant ones. Most of the jobs that I was applying for had a recruiting firm in between. So normally the company would not be known, and the first challenge was to get noticed by the recruiter. My experience is that the screening criteria among recruiters is exclusively the fit between the professional background and the job requirements. Therefore if there was a very good fit, I had a good chance of getting on to the next step. If there was a bad fit there was almost not possible.

My search agents on the feedreader resulted in a continuous flow of relevant news. Some of these pieces of news would trigger further investigation and in some cases an application.

This way I had a number of applications out there at all times.