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14 Creative Strategies that Get You Hired

14. Offer to work for free on a trial basis

Why not, if you don't currently have other options? Save this move for when you are new to a particular job or industry and have no experience, or are changing career paths.

As long as you put a "cap" on your trial so that you're not taken advantage of, this can be a good way to get through a door you might otherwise not enter.

 

  • Dawn Dugan

    Dawn Dugan specializes in writing books, articles, white papers, reports and special communications for the human resources industry. She is the co-author of Effective Executive Compensation, which was published by AMACOM in 2008. Read more...