Give me your best strategies for job hunting?

I’m dumbfounded when the best piece of advice I hear is that its a numbers game and probability is supreme. There’s got to be a strategy that one applies to shortlist from the ocean of offers out there.

• applying in the same domain as your current company?
• platform or regions where recruiters are more active?
• directly talking to freelance HMs and doing a deal?

If no hack, just share what worked for you? And how are you optimising the job searching?