When times are tough in the job market, it only makes sense that business is booming in the “advice about how to get a job” industry.

Since 2009, when the U.S. unemployment rate hit 10.2 percent, it’s been easy to find seminars on how to land your dream job, books on how to make an impression at an interview, and articles on every aspect of the process, from what kind of card stock to print your résumé on, to how to optimize your handshake at a job interview (guilty!).

But along with all the good advice, there’s plenty of bad advice that will make you wonder if these so-called career advisers are trying sabotage any chance of landing an interview.

Here, the bottom four tips we’ve seen:

Get your foot in the door
GuerillaJobHunting.com says that if you’re trying to land an interview, you’d be smart to “go to a discount shoe store and buy a good pair of loafers on sale.”

Then put one shoe in a box “with a card that says ‘Now that I have one shoe in the door, let me introduce myself…’” Mail it to prospective employers and wait for the job offers to come pouring in.
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