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

individuals out of the many who apply. Remember this mantra for jobhunters:
HR = Eliminate. If you are interviewed initially by HR, say
nothing that will get you eliminated. You want to be talking to the-personwho-actually-has-the-power-to-hire-you-for-the-job-you-want.
Principle #10: Resumes Are a Lousy Way to Go About Finding a Job.
An employer typically looks through a pile of resumes, in print or online,
to see which ones to eliminate, so as to get the stack down to a manageable
size for interviewing. Resumes therefore have an atrocious success record
(only 1 out of 270 results in landing a job).
If you want to know, there are twelve ways job-hunters can search for
those jobs that are out there. The question is: which methods have the
highest success rate, which ones have the lowest? This is rarely ever talked
about. Scientific studies are impossible to come by. But a number of
articles, surveys, etc., over the past forty years have suggested that the four
methods with the highest success rate are: 1. Beginning with a selfinventory
(this apparently works 12 times better than resumes); 2. Joining
a job club with a step-by-step program (10 times the success rate of
resumes); 3. Using the Yellow Pages of your phone book (9 times the
success rate of resumes); 4. Knocking on the door of any employer,
preferably those with 50 employees or less (7 times the success rate of
resumes).
Principle #11: Use Contacts or “Bridge-People” to Get In for an
Interview. Resumes are just one way to get in to see employers. The chief
alternative is to approach an employer in person, using a contact or bridgeperson
if possible, to secure an invitation. (A “bridge-person” is someone
who knows you well and also knows the organization you are trying to
reach, hence can serve as a bridge between you and them, and get you
invited in.)
Principle #12: Use Three Different Kinds of Interviews, in Your Job-
Search.
Practice Interviewing (sometimes called The Practice Field Survey).
This is done just to get used to interviewing. It involves interviewing
fellow enthusiasts, about any enthusiasm you have (such as movies,
skiing, computer games, reading, any hobby or curiosity). Its purpose
is to become comfortable with interviewing people, in a no-stress