Week 8: What Color is Your Parachute?

Chapter six of What Color is Your Parachute was short and sweet. The chapter talked about what to do when your job hunt is not going well. The book mentions the three most important rules by job hunters who were struggling while looking for a job. Those three rules are; never give up, never give up and never give up. I agree with that one hundred precent. I have not been in the job hunting world for that long, but I have had a few times where I felt like I was not going to find a new job. I did not give up and now I have a small job while going to school full time, its perfect. 

The book also mentions the eleven best and worst traditional approaches to looking for a job. I read through this and I was most shocked by "Looking for employers' job-postings on the Internet". Before I continued reading I thought for sure that looking for jobs on the internet was going to have a high success rate, I was wrong. According to the book looking for employers' job postings on the internet only works about 4% of the time. That was a total shock to me because I thought everyone goes on the internet to look for jobs. Heck, I even regularly look for jobs online just to see whats out there. One way that seemed to be really effective when looking for a job is to actually go to a company and talk to people who work there. I can say I have done this one before and it worked. My employer even told me she was happy I came in to talk to her face to face rather than communicate online. Job hunting is not easy, but it's a learning experience. So what if one job doesn't work out, you could be one step closer to landing your dream job. Never give up!