Balance is the key to everything, and everything needs balance.

The exceptions to every rule, and so-called “experts” over the past year brag that their methods bring immediate results. Each job seeker should be trying to weigh the good and the bad advice he or she receives.

This is not Mom's job search, going from door to door and explaining that she a hard worker. This job search animal is not found in the zoo.

I will not say this technique sucks or not Every survey I have read lately on successful job search methods suggests and confirms that person to person networking is the best. Here are methods that rarely bring results in 2010:

1. Filling out 25, 50, or 75 job applications weekly to any job that he or she may qualify for. Applicants today are scrutinized and examined in a way that even a good applicant are excluded. The numbers game is ineffective in 2010.

2. No resume. People are looking for jobs without a resume, and feel comfortable doing so because they never needed one.

3. Spend most of their time on job boards. This is not a bad method, it is just not a time effective one.

4. Trying to remember contact information. People underestimate contacts made months ago. Consider that his or her value may have increased since meeting you.

5. No plan. No success. No research. No insight. No job interview.

6. Attending job fairs without researching if they are hiring.

7. Asking friends for help, without understanding how they can help. Arbitrarily asking friends to know if there is a position open, without knowing what your friends do for a living rarely works. Ever.

8. Inundate online friends with “Are you hiring questions?”

People rely on past successes without understanding how the job market has changed, and the level of the competition for jobs. Discern for yourself if tactics that seem laborious would work.