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

y this job-hunting initiative of yours, you have helped accelerate the
creation of more jobs in your country, which is so much on
everybody’s mind here as we go deeper into the 21st Century. How
nice to help your country, as well as yourself!
5. Don’t confuse transferable skills with traits.
Functional/transferable skills are often confused with traits,
temperaments, or type. We often think that transferable skills are such
things as: has lots of energy, gives attention to details, gets along well
with people, shows determination, works well under pressure, is
sympathetic, intuitive, persistent, dynamic, dependable, etc. These are
not functional/transferable skills, but traits, self-management skills, or
the style with which you do your transferable skills.
For example, let’s assume that one of your traits is “gives attention
to details.” And let’s suppose that one of your transferable skills is
“conducting research.” In that case “gives attention to details”
describes the manner or style with which you conduct research.
More about this, later in this petal.
Petal Three, Worksheet #1
A SKILLS CHART: ANALYZING SEVEN STORIES WHEN YOU
WERE ENJOYING YOURSELF
Now that you know what transferable skills technically are, the problem
that awaits you now, is figuring out your own. If you are one of the few
lucky people who already know what your transferable skills are, blessed
are you. Write them down, and put them in the order of preference, for
you, on the Flower Diagram (this page).
If, however, you don’t know what your skills are (and 95% of all
workers don’t), then you will need some help. Fortunately, there is an
exercise to help.
It involves the following steps.
1. Write One Story About Some Episode in Your Life (The First of
Seven)