Week 3: What Color is Your Parachute?

This week I began reading the book What Color is Your Parachute? At first glance I thought this book was going to be boring and uninteresting. But I was wrong. (Never judge a book by its cover. I know). To be completely honest I have not thought a lot about job hunting. That's mainly because I am so focused on school I haven't had to look for any "big girl" jobs yet. All the jobs I have applied for were little part time jobs that my friends have introduced me to. After reading the first chapter I realized I need to start preparing myself to look for jobs after college now.

The first chapter of the book talks about how finding jobs are getting harder and will continue to get harder as the time goes on. ( Yay for me). Bolles states in the book that 22.6% of people who are looking for a job are spending six months or longer looking for a job. That is very concerning. This is why I think it is important to start preparing myself now. Another thing that concerns me is that the length of how long a jobs lasts has decreased. This section talks about because of the dramatic decrease of how long a job lasts there has been an increase of part time jobs. I don't know about you but I am trying to find a full time job. Sure, it's nice having a little part time job while going to school but that is not going to cut it after I graduate.

I want to refer back to my AI blog for a second. The book mentions the future and how computers are going to continue to play a huge role in the job world. This is the second time I have came across this topic in a week. Bolles says, "...robots will take away a net of 5 million jobs by 2020." 2020 is not that far away people! We need to be prepared for things like this. As mentioned in my blog about AI I think it will be essential for people to learn things like coding. It could give us a huge advantage in the job field. I can't wait to share more tips I learn from this book.