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Effective Job Hunting Strategies: Insights from "What Color Is Your Parachute?"

Discover essential job hunting methods from "What Color Is Your Parachute?" Understand the difference between ineffective approaches, like random resumes and newspaper ads, with low success rates, versus effective techniques, such as asking for leads and directly contacting employers. Learn how thorough research, networking, and showcasing your problem-solving skills can significantly improve your chances of landing the right job. Every job is a unique adventure, and finding satisfaction should come from the work itself.

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Effective Job Hunting Strategies: Insights from "What Color Is Your Parachute?"

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  1. Finding a Job From What Color is Your Parachute?

  2. Two Truths About Job Market • There are always jobs out there • Whether you can find them depends on your methods of job-hunting

  3. The Worst Ways to Find a Job • Mail out resumes at random (7% success) • Answering ads in professional or trade journals (7%) • Answering non-local newspaper ads (10%) • Answering local newspaper ads (5-24%) • Going to private employment agencies (5-24%)

  4. The Best Ways to Find a Job • Ask for job leads (33% success rate) • Knocking on door of prospective employer (47%) • Creative Approach to Job-Hunting (86%)

  5. Creative Approach • Do thorough homework, and inventory, upon yourself. Know in what kinds of fields you want to use those skills. • Talk to people who are in those kinds of jobs. Find out if they like their job and how they found their job.

  6. Creative Approach (2) • Choose organizations where you want to work. Do research on those organizations. • Seek out the person who actually has the power to hire you for the job you want. Use your personal contacts to get to him or her. • Show how you can help your prospective employer solve their problems. • Cut no corners, take no shortcuts.

  7. Remember, Every Job… • Is temporary, that is, of uncertain length • Is a seminar • Is an adventure • Is one where the satisfaction must lie in the work itself • Might not get praise • If you like it, you will be good at it and v.vs.

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