We are much the same. When I'm job hunting, I'm not paying attention to ads, job boards, or similar. Never have. My career is fully mature enough that I have a rich professional network available.

But it's still a numbers game. All that changes is how big those numbers have to be. What I mean by that is when I'm looking for work, I'm not doing it one application at a time. I develop a list of the places that I think would be good, and apply to them all.