What Color Is Your Parachute? 2015: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers
Language: English
Pages: 368
ISBN: 1607745550
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The world's most popular job-search book is updated for 2015 to tailor its long-trusted guidance with up-to-the-minute information and advice for today's job-hunters and career-changers.
What Color Is Your Parachute? is the world’s most popular job-hunting guide with more than ten million copies sold. Now, no matter what your circumstances, every job-hunter can find help with up-to-the-minute information on what has changed about the job-market, plus strategies for finding jobs even when everyone tells you there are none. And if you are a returning vet, there is a new twenty-page appendix this year, specifically addressing your unique needs.
This 2015 edition includes up-to-date research and tips about writing impressive resumes and cover letters, doing effective networking and confident interviewing, and negotiating the best salary possible. But it goes beyond that, in helping you to better know who you are, with its classic self-inventory—called “The Flower Exercise”—because the best answer to What shall I do? flows from knowing Who you are.
being a good human being. A loving human being. A Sampler The following Appendix is exactly what its name implies: a Sampler. Were I to list all the career coaches and counselors there are in the U.S. (never mind the world), we would end up with an encyclopedia. Some states, in fact, have encyclopedic lists of counselors and businesses, in various books or directories, and your local bookstore or library should have these, in their Job-Hunting Section, under such titles as “How to Get a Job
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when employers are finding it much easier to fill a vacancy, many—though not all—of them change their tactics. They will stop reading our resumes and stop posting their vacancies. So we can search until we’re blue in the face. But…nothing! Everything that used to work, doesn’t work anymore. And we are baffled. It is like turning the key in our faithful car, but for the first time in five years the motor won’t start. We decide, of course, that the reason why nothing is working is that there are
individually, into the community, town, or city, and actually visited places, doing informational interviews, or keeping appointments you’d set up. Before you went out, each job-hunter shared with the rest of the group what kind of job they were looking for. That meant, you had other eyes out there looking for any leads (rhymes with needs) that might help you. And you of course did the same for them. This method worked well over 70% of the time. Many years ago I audited groups that used this
given it some thought, and instantly recognize it. Form of the Entries on Your Petal: You can stay general (city, suburbs, rural, up in the mountains, on the coast, or overseas); or you can get very specific if you’re really ready to move, naming names and places—as this exercise will teach you to do. Example of a Good Petal: First preference: Jackson, Wyoming; Second preference: Honolulu; Third preference: New York City. Example of a Bad Petal: The West; a suburb; snow. Why Bad: Too broad.