1. Here’s a list of easy-to-get jobs for emergency situations like recession layoffs: here. UPDATE: 9/5/23: 29:11 – The best companies for remote customer service positions are Arise, Sykes, Sitel, Liveops, and Working Solutions. The only drawback with these is that you’ll sometimes have to go through 1-2 months of training without any pay, you’re dealing with frustrated callers all the time, you’re graded on your calls every week, and you probably need to buy a $300 Jabra Engage 75 headset so people won’t complain about not being able to hear you well enough. In my opinion, try getting a Business Development Representative or Sales Development Representative position on Indeed: these are much better types of phone-based work than customer service is. But I suppose that could be subjective.

2. LazyApply: upgrade it to the Unlimited Plan: here.

3. Temp Agencies: ply your trade there by searching on Google.

UPDATE: 8/5/23 – On LazyApply’s Unlimited Plan, only the LinkedIn and Indeed will work. They present the other job searching sites as options, but they are still in development. Another thing: if you’re going to use LazyApply, you MUST use the “Under 10 Applicants” for LinkedIn and “Past 7 Days” for Indeed. Otherwise, you’ll be applying to a bunch of dead applications that haven’t been removed. If you do it this way, then you can ensure that you will be applying to fresh applications that are still hot and active. Also, when entering the job title, put it into quotes like “Inside Sales”–makes all the difference.

UPDATE: 8/7/23 – 1,000 applications on Friday, 1,000 applications on Saturday, and 1,000 applications on Sunday with LazyApply should yield about 8 interview requests by Monday to supply you for the week ahead. That might sound like a terrible hit rate: and it is: but remember that we’re in a layoff-recession scenario right now; and many of the applications on LinkedIn and Indeed are oversaturated and old. The LazyApply app is just there to help you sort and sift through the silt, to find that placer gold in the creek, so to speak.

UPDATE: 8/12/23 – I accepted a good job offer in 5 days after the 3,000 applications on LazyApply as mentioned above. I also got a Calendly link which enabled me to easily copy and paste in the emails and LinkedIn messages of recruiters who contacted me for interview requests. This would start to pop interview appointments on my Google Calendar. The job was one of the Indeed applications. During my job search I visited Goodwill’s “Job Connection” center. All they do there is point people to use Indeed. It was only 286 Indeed applications that I did which led to the job offer 5 days later. Only 43 were done on LinkedIn. This is strange given that I actually applied 3,000 times between the two platforms. But it just goes to show how many old and overapplied applications there are on these sites; and how many duplicate applications I must have had to roll over in order to find new applications to register in my LazyApply “Applied Jobs” log. I’m a salesperson, so in the job title search, I used the following search terms (using quotations for the job titles in LazyApply is essential):

“Inside Sales”
“Business Development”
“Sales Development” (this is the one I got a job offer on with Indeed)
“Customer Service”
“Call Center”
“Customer Experience”

UPDATE: 9/1/23 – LazyApply works best on Indeed because there’s always much more jobs to apply to than on LinkedIn. However, LazyApply can be really buggy and temperamental. It works only if you’re lucky. I’ve found that “harassing” the customer service chat with reports about bugs and screenshots tends to help with these occasional bugs and hang-ups sometimes. But then again, its like the guy Ajay has just given up on delivering quality code. So many bugs that it makes one feel they are in the Congo, in terms of software usability. I’m going to also try Webs-Automation as a backup plan. (I received a 2nd high-quality job offer two days ago–again through applying with LazyApply on Indeed.)

UPDATE: 9/3/23 – LazyApply definitely has its bugs; and texting screenshots to the chat can help if this happens. Although Ajay will tend to ignore you. But in my observation, the most pernicious bug that completely interrupts the “Job Automation” process, would be the “Bad Message 431” bug. This is where Chrome will say “Request Header Fields Too Large.” Don’t think this is something you can control by the words you’re typing: it’s a software coding glitch. But in my experience, the best way to prevent this 431 error from happening, is to just WALK AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER FOR SEVERAL HOURS and allow the Job Automation to do its work. It’s when you start the Job Automation; and then say to yourself, “I’ll also browse the web on another screen with this same computer,” that LazyApply gets tripped up into the 431 error and basically the program stops working. You can’t browse the web and use LazyApply at the same time.

UPDATE: 9/21/23 – Webs-Automation might be less buggy than LazyApply. I don’t know, because I haven’t tried it yet. But if you keep having the Bad Message 431 error on LazyApply, then apparently the only fix is to use LazyApply with a different Chrome profile.

UPDATE: 12/1/23 – I have no idea why Google decided to “restrict” my video, but I can say with confidence: DO NOT USE WEBS-AUTOMATION. THESE PEOPLE ARE SCAMMERS. THEY WILL USE ALL KINDS OF TRICKS TO MAKE YOU PAY 3 TIMES THROUGH PAYPAL, GPAY, AND REGULAR CREDIT CARD THROUGH “PAYMENT DECLINED” MESSAGES. BANK OF AMERICA FINALLY FLAGGED THEM AS FRADULENT. Stay with LazyApply, and if you get bugs, then use LazyApply on a different Chrome account than the buggy one.