From BusinessWeek:

... It's not that using out-of-date job-search approaches brands you as older. Rather, it's that using no-longer-in-fashion job search techniques marks you as out of touch.

Employers pay us, in part, to be aware of trends and phenomena that affect the workplace. Working people (and job-seekers) should follow the news, keep a bead on our changing world, and stay abreast of changes in business, technology, politics, and cultural shifts. That isn't an unreasonable expectation.

If a job-seeker isn't curious and perceptive enough to notice that the last time he saw "Dear Sir or Madam" on a letter was around the time Chevy Chase impersonated Gerald Ford falling down the stairs, how will he notice what's changing in his field?

Here are five formerly useful, now-dangerous job-search approaches that hark back to an earlier age. Get them out of your job-search repertoire, pronto...

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