Job Search Tactics: Make the Most of Your Lunch Hour During the Week

The most important ingredient to any job search is time. No matter how great your job search technique, how powerful your resume, or how compelling your interviewing technique, you have to put in considerable amount of time to make it all happen.

Believe me, I'm one of the world's most impatient people. I've found a lot of ways to cut down on the time a job search takes. But no matter how hard I try, there's still a lot to be done. You just can't get around it.

And that's the problem. Most of us have very limited amounts of time. Unless you have the unfortunate "blessing" of being out of work, a job search is something you'll have to squeeze in when you can.

But one of the more commonly overlooked pieces of time in a day for job hunting is lunch. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you should skip the actual food-consumption aspect of lunchtime. No way. But why not grab a sandwich and knock out a little work at the same time? It can really make a difference over the long haul.

Here are some great tips for getting the most out of that quick little midday hour.

Networking Lunches
Probably the best use of your time during lunch hour is to get out and meet with people. Lunch is the perfect time. You're both in work mode, so it's assumed that careers and jobs will be a prime topic of the discussion no matter what your relationship to the contact is. And even if you're not in the throes of a job search you should be having such lunch meeting anyway from time to time. They're the easiest, most valuable way to do this conduct this most powerful of job search tactics.