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

cast it into the sea in order to capture the largest haul of fish possible, and
only later do you pick out the best from your haul. But we start big.
How to fill out this chart? Well, that’s your choice. You may want to fill
this out at one sitting; or you may prefer to keep it in your pocket and jot
down anything that occurs to you over a period of two or three weeks:
every bright idea, every hunch, every remembered dream, every intuition
that pops up. This is an important petal—very important—as it may help
you unearth a field or fields where you would really like to work. So it’s
worth spending some time on.
Now here are some hints to help you fill in the first three parts of the
chart.
PART 1. WHAT YOU KNOW FROM YOUR PREVIOUS JOBS
If you’ve been out there in the world of work for some time, you’ve
probably learned a lot of things that you now just take for granted. “Of
course I know that!” But such knowledges may be important, in and of
themselves, or they may point you to something important, down the line.
So don’t be afraid to really get detailed.
Examples: It can be things like: bookkeeping, handling applications,
credit collection of overdue accounts, hiring, international business,
management, marketing, sales, merchandising, packaging, policy
development, problem solving, troubleshooting, public speaking,
recruiting, conference planning, systems analysis, the culture of other
countries, other languages, government contract procedures, and so on.