Week 10: What Color is Your Parachute?

This week I read chapter 8. Chapter 8 was called self inventory part 2. This chapter builds on all the skills from the last chapter. On the first page of chapter 8 we learn about the flower exercise. The flower exercise consists of seven petals because there are seven sides to a person or seven ways we think of ourself. These seven petals are ways we can describe ourself. These petals consists of different categories.

1. You and people. 
2. You and a work place.
3. You and skills.
4. Your and your purpose in life.
5. You and the knowledges you already have.
6. You and salary/responsibility.
7. You and geography.

The chapter goes through each petal and uses chats, graphs and fill in the blanks that correspond to each category.  I love that each chapter comes with these tools that I am able to fill in and use for my personal benefit. Like I mentioned in my last blog post I am a visual learner. Writing things out and drawing pictures really helps me better understand what's going on.

The picture above is called the fisherman's net. The fisherman's net is used in petal five. This chart is used to map out all the things you've learned about yourself though your pervious job experience. I really like this chart because ultimately this chart may help you unearth a job or job fields that would be ideal for you. The book suggests that it is good to spend some time on this chart so you can really think about your answers before writing them out. There are many other charts that will help build a better understanding of where you want to be in the job world. If you want to fill out your own charts you can google the ones used in the book and print them out for free! That is something I will be doing so I can physically see how my job hunting career is going.