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

As you can see from the side arrows in the diagram, simpler skills
can be, and usually are, heavily prescribed (by the employer), so if
you claim only the simpler skills, you will have to “fit in”—following
the instructions of your supervisor, and doing exactly what you are
told to do. The higher the skills you can legitimately claim, the more
you will be given discretion to carve out the job the way you want to
—so that it truly fits you.
4. The higher your transferable skills, the less competition you will
face for whatever job you are seeking, because jobs that use such
skills will rarely be advertised through normal channels.
Not for you the way of classified ads, resumes, and agencies. No, if
you can legitimately claim higher skills, then to find such jobs you
should follow the step-by-step process I will be describing in the next
chapter.
The essence of this approach to job-hunting or career-changing is
that once you have identified your favorite transferable skills, and
your favorite special knowledges, you may then approach any
organization that interests you, whether they have a known vacancy
or not. Naturally, whatever places you visit—and particularly those
that have not advertised any vacancy—you will find far fewer jobhunters
that you have to compete with.
In fact, if the employers you visit happen to like you well enough,
they may be willing to create for you a job that does not presently
exist. In which case, you will be competing with no one, since you will
be the sole applicant for that newly created job. As I mentioned
earlier, while this doesn’t happen all the time, it is astounding to me
how many times it does happen. The reason it does is that the
employers often have been thinking about creating a new job within
their organization, for quite some time—but with this and that, they
just have never gotten around to doing it. Until you walked in.
Then they decided they didn’t want to let you get away, since good
employees are as hard to find as good employers. And they suddenly
remember that job they have been thinking about creating for many
weeks or months, now. So they dust off their intention, create the job
on the spot, and offer it to you! And if that new job is not only what
they need, but is exactly what you were looking for, then you have a
dream job. Match-match. Win-win.
From our country’s perspective, it is also interesting to note this: