Week 3- Job-Hunters " What Color is Your Parachute?"

Ever find it hard to find a job? Or find a job in a field you want? Well then you come to the right place. What Color is Your Parachute is the perfect book to help those Job Hunters that don't know what do or maybe don't know what kind of job they want.  Richard Bolles book states " We assume, of course, that the reason why nothing is working is that there are no jobs. It never occurs to us that there are indeed jobs- over ten million of them a month, as we'll see in chapter 3- but that employees have changed their behavior when hunting their behavior when hunting for employees, and we have not caught up with, nor adapted to, employees' new behavior"(Bolles.2018.p.3). This is true there is always going to be a job out there it may not be what you want or you may not be a candidate for it but the job is still out there. The other problem that is faced is once we find a job it doesn't always last which means we have to get smarter and develop more skills. Bolles states " Job-hunting is no longer an optional exercise. It is a  survival skill. This means the one thing in our life that we must get really skilled at, and become masters of, is the new job-hunt, new at least since things have changed after the 2008 Great Recession"(Boles.2018.p.9). This is a problem because job-seekers often get discouraged after a certain length of time when searching for a job and that is when developing a new skill will come in handy making them a more vital candidate for another great job.

In this day and age the communication between the job-hunters and the employers is often lacking in what exactly that employer may be looking for in their employees. " When we're job-hunting, you get turned down because-some employers say-" You don't have the skills we're looking for." You think they're referring to such things as analyzing, researching, communicating, etc. No, they really mean "experience", though they use the word "skills"(Bolles.2018.p.11). This is so frustrating for the job-hunters because how are they suppose to get experience if they don't get the chance to get hired.

Now of course there are ways to make yourself successful so that you don't run into these problems. In What Color Is Your Parachute states"  In today's world, he or she who gets hired is not necessarily the one who can do that job best; but, the one who knows the most about how to get hired"(Bolles.2018.p.14). It's all about knowing the right things to say and when to speak and when not to speak to much.

Now check out What Color is Your Parachute by Richard Bolles on more help and advice when hunting for a job or finding your career path. Don't sweat there's a job out there for everyone!