What Color Is Your Parachute 2018 by Richard N. Bolles copy

Conclusion: If Nothing Works
Remember, job-hunting always involves luck, to some degree. But with a
little bit of luck, a lot of hard work, and determination on your part, these
instructions thus far in this book, should work for you, as they have
worked for so many hundreds of thousands before you. 3
But. Maybe it won’t. Maybe you’ll faithfully follow everything in these
first five chapters, and you still can’t find a job. Tempting, at that point, to
think it’s just the sluggish economy, isn’t it? The only irritating little fact:
there were ten million vacancies last month. Why didn’t you get one of
them?
There must be something different that you can do. Right?
There sure is.
That’s what the rest of this book is about.
1. One job-hunter said his interviews always began with the salary question, and no
matter what he answered, that ended the interview. Turned out, this job-hunter was
doing all the interviewing over the phone. That was the problem. Once he went
face-to-face, salary was no longer the first thing discussed in the interview.
2. For a directory of Internet cafés around the world, see www.​cybercafes.​com.
3. Here is a letter from a job-hunter who had great success:
Before I read this book, I was depressed and lost in the futile job-hunt using Want
Ads only. I did not receive even one phone call from any ad I answered, over a
total of four months. I felt that I was the most useless person on earth. I am female,
with a two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, a former professor in China, with no
working experience at all in the U.S. We came here seven months ago because my
husband had a job offer here.
Then, on June 11th of last year, I saw your book in a local bookstore.
Subsequently, I spent three weeks, ten hours a day except Sunday, reading every
single word of your book and doing all of the flower petals in the Flower Exercise.
After getting to know myself much better, I felt I was ready to try the job-hunt
again. I used Parachute through out as my guide, from the very beginning to the