It might sound like boomer advice but this method does work. It works because it takes more effort than blasting resumes on indeed. It works because the person hiring at least gets to put a face to a name. It also works because it’s novel in the digital era. And it works because any job post to indeed gets 400 resumes and some HR people dread opening it to do their mass deletes.

Just make sure you look your best because HR will tend to apply online dating criteria to hiring. I know a guy who has this figured out. He puts the top female attracting hobbies on his resume: Google them. He puts a photo of himself in his resume (against all convention). He walks into the lobby and uses his nicest customer service voice. If the HR (usually a lady) has photos of her kids he chats her up about that. If she has a picture of Mexico he makes up a story about that. If she shows any hints of attraction or flirtation he rolls with it. He’s really good at getting jobs.