"Conduct your job search as if it is your job" is advice that keeps people unemployed

I have no advice on how to find a job. I got my World Bank job through the kind of amazing fluke that is, well…the way that people generally get their jobs. But I do know how to not find a job. After college, I spent something like nine months without employment, and it was not the happiest of times. Whenever I meet or see someone who is in that situati…