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

our skills grid, etc., etc. And keep this process up, until you have written,
and analyzed, all your stories. A weekend should do it! In a weekend, you
can inventory your past sufficiently so that you have a good picture of the
kind of work you would love to be doing in the future. (You can, of course,
stretch the inventory over a number of weeks, maybe doing an hour or two
one night a week, if you prefer. It’s up to you as to how fast you do it.)
4. Patterns and Priorities
Okay, when you’ve finished this whole inventory, for all seven of your
accomplishments/achievements/jobs/roles or whatever, you want to look
down your completed skills grid to discover any PATTERNS or
PRIORITIES.
a. Patterns, because it isn’t a matter of whether you used a skill once
only, but rather whether you used it again and again. “Once” proves
nothing; “again and again” is very convincing.
b. Priorities (that is, which skills are most important to you), because as
we saw earlier, the job you eventually choose may not be able to use
all of your skills. You need to know what you are willing to trade off,
and what you are not. This requires that you know which skills, or
family of skills, are most important to you.
So, after finishing your seven stories (or if you’re in a hurry, at least
five), look through that Skills Grid, and now guess which might be your
top ten favorite skills. These should be your best guesses, and they should
be about your favorite skills: not the ones you think the job-market will
like the best, but the ones you enjoy using the most.
At this point, now that you’ve guessed your top ten, you want to be able
to prioritize those ten in exact order of priority. Run your guesses through
the Prioritizing Grid on this page and when you’re done with that grid’s
Section D, copy the top ten onto the building blocks diagram below, as
well as onto your Favorite Transferable Skills petal, on this page.