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

There is also a free 67-page workbook that you can print out from
your computer. It is called the STEP AHEAD Workbook, and was
produced with funding from the Minnesota Department of
Corrections. Currently it is sponsored by Minnesota State Colleges
and Universities: http://www.​iseek.​org/​iseek/​static/​STEP-AHEAD-
Workbook.​pdf.
But the most detailed help I know of, is from a man named Dick
Gaither. He is head of Job Search Training Systems in Indiana, and
has worked a lot with ex-offenders over many years. Send Dick an
email at workwizard@aol.​com asking for his Ex-Offender
Training Packet, and he will send you a 255-page e-book that you
can download, and even print out—the first 102 pages of which are
exclusively for ex-offenders. This is an incredibly helpful resource,
and…it’s free. A great public service, from a tremendous human
being.
6. Former patients (psychiatric or mental hospitals). Next employer
prejudice: hiring ex–mental patients. According to Time, 19% of
U.S. adults had a mental illness in the past year. That doesn’t
necessarily mean that they were hospitalized, but it does mean they
had serious problems. 1 And probably overcame them. The same
general comments that I made above, apply here. The only questions
an employer need ask are: “What skills are needed to do this job, and
does this man or woman have them?” and “Does this person get along
well with other people?” With employers, this is a prejudice, not a
handicap; as a job-hunter, just keep going until you find an employer
who is not prejudiced.
7. Others. There is hardly a group you can name that does not face
prejudice from some employers. That’s because employers are human
beings, glorious in their individuality and lamentable in their
humannesss, including their prejudices. Employers vary greatly.
There are employers good and kind, and employers who aren’t.
Personally, I draw comfort from all the employers I run into who are
a credit to the human race. Here is a letter I got from a successful jobhunter
2 recently:
As we went along in the interview, some of the things the employer
told me were, “I’m very flexible with schedules. I want to put
people in activities that I know they’ll be the best in, but that means