A dear friend has a daughter who is having unemployment problems.

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9. Get her to think up the very places and jobs where she would be a good fit.

Write them and offer to do an unpaid internship for a few months. Send in your resume and cover letter. If she doesn't get a job she may at least have more experience to add to her resume and references.

Also get her to look up the names of places, that sound like places where she might like to work, in the phone book. Call them, find out about what they do, don't say anything else. Then write letters to all the places that sound like a fit. Send in her resume. A different cover letter. I can't tell you enough how important it is to call and find out who they are. I once sent a resume into what I thought was a human rights organization. It was actually a Catholic anti abortion anti birth control organization. I went for the interview anyway to get practice. But yeah. Up the experience by volunteering. And get at the hidden job market by getting your resume on file.

That would be two separate mail merges. Don't know how one finds work in the digital age.