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

The Remedy
No, it’s not all bad news. Think of these, instead, as challenges.
Sure, the workplace has changed dramatically since 2008.
And consequently, the job-hunt has changed dramatically since 2008.
Still, there is Hope. It’s not that there are no jobs (see chapter 3). It’s
just that the old way you used to hunt for them doesn’t work very well,
anymore.
In today’s world, he or she who gets hired is not necessarily the one
who can do that job best; but, the one who knows the most about how to
get hired.
If you learn new advanced job-hunting skills you can not only survive.
You can thrive. Here are the key ideas that can save you. There are 18 of
them. After outlining them here, the rest of this book is devoted to
showing you exactly how to do them step by step:
Principle #1: You Are the Given. All job-hunting strategies are a
choice between going the traditional route (where you assume the job is
the given, and you try to shape yourself to fit it) vs. going the creative
route (where you assume that you are the given, and—once defined—you
try to find a job that fits You).
Principle #2: The Importance of a Self-Inventory. The most
successful job-hunting begins with your doing research on yourself (using
“the Flower Exercise” in chapter 8)—which results in successful jobhunting
84% of the time—rather than beginning with research on the jobmarket
(what are the jobs in demand, the “hot” jobs, etc.), which results in
finding a job only 4% to 28% of the time, at best.
Principle #3: Creative Job-Hunting Rests on Your Finding Answers to
Three Questions: What? Where? and How? The most important
questions to answer are:
What are the (transferable) skills you most love to use?
Where would you most love to use those skills—in what field, in what
setting, with what kinds of people? (Taking into consideration such