This Genius Method Can Get Your Job Application Into the Hands of a Hiring Manager

Your dream job, say as a Google programmer or a globe-trotting wine taster, appears in a posting online. You submit a resume and a week goes by—no response. After two or three more, still nothing. The simmering distress boils over as you realize that a response will never come, and you’ll never know why.

“Don’t take it personally,” a friend tells you over drinks.