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

of organization, because I want to do this kind of work; do you know of
particular places like that, that I might investigate? And if so, where they
are located?” Use face-to-face interviews, use LinkedIn, use the Yellow
Pages, use search engines, to try to find the answer(s) to that question.
Incidentally, you must not care, at this point, if they have known vacancies
or not. The only question that should concern you for the moment is
whether or not the place looks interesting, or even intriguing to you. (The
only caveat is that you will probably want to investigate smaller places—
100 or fewer employees—rather than larger; and newer places, rather
than older.) But for a successful job-hunt you should choose places
based on your interest in them, and not wait for them to open up a
vacancy. Vacancies can suddenly open up in a moment, and without
warning.
What will you end up with, when this step is done? Well, you’ll likely
have either too few names or too many to go investigate. There are ways of
dealing with either of these eventualities.
TOO MANY NAMES
You will want to cut the territory down, to a manageable number of
targets.
Let’s take an example. Suppose you discover that the career that
interests you the most is welding. You want to be a welder. Well, that’s a
beginning. You’ve cut the 23 million U.S. job-markets down to:
• I want to work in a place that hires welders.