Anybody giving you that advice did not follow it themselves and probably works at somewhere that their friends or family set them up with.
My advice to anybody job seeking who is dejected is just watch the monologue from the Far Cry 3 guy who quotes Einstein about how doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is insanity, and feel better than listening to some corporate shill who's being disingenuous.
No thanks to the angry wasps this would bring