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

two or three sentences.) Often this will get you the job. My readers said so.
Principle #17: Remember, Job-Hunting Is by Its Very Nature a Long
Process of Rejection. The pattern of your job-hunt will likely sound like
this, after interviewing at a number of places: “NO NO NO NO NO NO
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO YES YES.” So, if the people you
have interviewed with eventually turn you down, don’t generalize from
this (“Employers will never hire me”). They are just part of the “No”s.
After each rejection, take comfort in the fact that you are one “NO” closer
to “YES” or even two “Yes”s.
Principle #18: Always Have Alternatives. It is crucial for you to have
alternatives, at every turn in your job-hunt; which means, more than just
one way to go about it, more than just one target, etc. This habit comes
more naturally to some people than to others. But staying hopeful, depends
on developing this habit.
Cheer up! Yes, it is a brand-new job-hunting world out there. But you
are not powerless, up against vast forces you cannot control. You control
this one thing above all else: how you search. And that, my friend, is the
key to finding not only work, but meaningful work. You were put here on
Earth for a reason. You need to find it. These are the steps.
1. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Table A-12, “Unemplyed
Persons by Duration of Unemployment,” April 2017.
2. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Table A-16, “Persons Not in
the Labor Force and Multiple Jobholders by Sex, Not Seasonally Adjusted,” April
2017.
3. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Economic News Release,
“Number of Jobs Held, Labor Market Activity, and Earnings Growth Among the
Youngest Baby Boomers: Results from a Longitudinal Survey Summary,” March
31, 2015, www.​bls.​gov/​news.​release/​nlsoy.​nr0.​htm.
4. Contract workers and “temp” workers are legally not the same category. An
employer can prescribe what a temp worker does and how they do it. The very
definition of independent contractor means the employer cannot. The two
categories are alike only in the relative shortness of employment.
5. And no, this is not due to the Affordable Care Act. See www.​advisorperspectives.​
com/​dshort/​commentaries/​Full-Time-vs-Part-Time-Employment.​php.
6. Jim Tankersley, “The 21st Century Has Been Terrible for Working Americans,”
Washington Post, March 6, 2015, www.​washingtonpost.​com/​blogs/​wonkblog/​wp/​
2015/​03/​06/​the-21st-century-has-been-terrible-for-working-americans.