So for all of you who are discouraged as I was...
After umpteen hunnit LinkedIn/Glassdoor/Indeed/Ziprecruiter/Company Site applications that led to either Ghostville, contacts sheepishly saying, "I'll keep my eyes open", or the common rejection letter, I went from discouraged to despair.
But I have to say I got lucky. I went from despair to anger.
I said "F**k it!!! I'm going to reach out to the owners/CEOs/positional leaders of these companies directly!!"
I used demo accounts on Apollo, Lusha, and any salesperson lead-gen tool with a trial and got phone numbers and email addresses. I reached out to them directly via phone, SMS, LinkedIn message, or email and gave quick curated pit