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One of the best things about looking for a job is you can choose where you want to work. Chapter  8 in What Color is your Parachute? 2016, Richard Bolles talks a lot of choosing where you work. After looking at the flow diagram from chapter 7, it might be a little bit easier to find your dream job. In order to choose that job, we should go through a few steps. First, figure out what careers or jobs the flower diagram you made points to. Look at all the petals, but more importantly focus more on the knowledges and transferable skills. Talk to people close to you, write down what these people are suggesting to you, take the valuable parts of your notes, and remember you what to find the right name. So take suggestions and think about it hard for your self.

Next, Bolles say we need to try on different careers, when its time for a career change. So we should be going out and talking to people who are doing the career you're interested in. Ask them for a little bit of their time and go meet with them. Some questions you might ask are "How did you get into this work?" or "What do like most/least about this work?" (Bolles 207). We want to find out if this work will fit you or not. Use this interview as you tool to find out . Ask deep questions to get what information you need to find.

Third, find out the organizations that have the job you might like to do. So say if you want to be a social media marketers, find an organization that have social media marketing as a career and explore. Different organizations will have different variation for different jobs; an organization might have a full time or part time option. The may be a organization that is nonprofit or for-profit, and other options.

Fourth, find names of places that you interested in. When talking to individuals about organization keep lot of notes on the individual places they talk about. In order to have a successful job hunt, choose place that are based  upon your interests in that company, don't wait for a vacancy, like Bolles say.

Before approaching a place, find out as much information as you can about that place. When you find a place that you have decided that you really might want to work for, go and do further research. This is what is going to help you in the interview process. Find out things like the corporate culture, goals, obstacles, and how your skills will help them (Bolles 213). Gathering information like this could be the difference between you like a job and you loving a job.

If anyone helps you along the way, send a thank you note as a token of your appreciation. Get some type of contact information such as a business card or an email