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How do you define handicap? If you think about it and what it really means, to put in in simple terms its something that makes success difficult. Correspondingly, in What Color is Your Parachute? 2016, Richard Bolles go in to detail how to deal with your handicaps. When you are in the interviewing process and you get turned down, you start to think about your handicaps.

We cannot generalize about employers. Bolls says we have to look at from this point, "All employers divide for you in just two tribes: employers who are interested in hiring you for what you can do; vs. employers who are bothered by what you can't do" (Bolles 225). This gives us a different perspective and a different way to think about the hiring process, Once we think like this, we can begin to focus on dealing with out handicaps. No matter how many times you get turned down we have keep focus on getting that job and fitting in the right place. Find the one who focuses on what you can do.

We need to keep in mind that not everyone is perfect. Everyone is handicapped in one way or another. There are so many skills and abilities out there. Its hard to know every single skills. So to say that a person is handicapped in one way or another is pretty accurate. But instead of keeping your mind on what you can't do, think about what you can do.

To help you out, create a list of skills that you have and skills that you do not.

Find a list of transferable skills. Put the skills in each perspective column. Then pick out you favorite skills and which ones you love to do. For the skills you do not have, do some research on them. Look them up on google and find an association that deals with your disability. Contact the association and find out what information they have on it.

There are many things that are considered handicap. But, according to Bolles, shyness is one of the top handicaps. Daniel Porot developed a way for people to get over their shyness. This is called the PIE method.

He even made a chart to help individuals understand and utilize the method.

Use this chart to help you get over you shyness and rid of this handicap. Handicap are the barriers to us getting jobs. Let get over the ones we can and use the many resources that are available.

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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

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"You need to fully understand who you are." (Bolles 111). This is what Richard Bolles says in chapter seven of What Color is Your Parachute? 2016. By doing this we can truly understand what we want and can see an image of where you fit in.  But in order to do this we need to do some things to help you. There are many different steps and way to help you.

Start by doing homework on yourself.This is how you will learn to describe yourself and you can approach multiple job markets. It will help you because you will be able to describe in detail what you are looking for. Try to end up with a picture that you imagine yourself doing and something that will excite you so much that you will approach job market with that picture in your head. Homework allows you to access this valuable information about yourself and you don't have to wait for vacancy at companies. Use a bridge person. These are just all meant to be of your benefit. They allow you to have a inventory on yourself and you can better understand what will make you happy.

This inventory then allows you use the flower organization chart on your self.

This chart allows you to see more visually who you are and the different components of yourself. Also, it allows you to gather, organize, and prioritize like Bolles says we should do. It has seven categories on each petal. Categories consist of my favorite knowledges or fields of interest, my preferred kinds of people to work with, what I can do and love to do (my favorite transferable skills), my favorite working conditions, my preferred salary and level of responsibility, my preferred place(s) to live, and my goal, purpose, or mission in life (Bolles 117). There is definitely more aspects to an individual, but these give a better picture for you in the workplace. Bolles want us to think about each petal in depth. Create notes on your favorite knowledges, these can include information from past jobs, some interests you may have, you outside of work, good ideas and what every will help you narrow down what your favorite field of interest is.

For the second petal, we want to find out who we like to work with. To do this we have to do some more homework. We can create a my favorite people chart. This chart will consist of four columns. The first on will include the place you have work. The second will be people who drove you nuts and third the people you prefer not to have to work with. The fourth will be the people you want to work with. These can be a list of qualities and rank them. You may have to willing to make exceptions in some cases, but find out to help yourself.

The third petal, has to do with what I can do and love to do. We want to find out our transferrable skills. Bolles say that your transferable skills are the most basic unit of whatever career you may choose. Claim the highest skills on the basis of your past performance. Also, the higher your transferable skills, the more freedom you will have on the job. This will mean less competition too. Remember its a skill, not a trait.

The fourth petal is to find out my favorite conditions.  We want find the conditions that will make us the happiest and enable you to be most effective. We want to avoid bad experiences. Create a distasteful working conditions charts. It has four columns. The first column, shows the place you have worked. The second, will consist of distasteful working conditions and you will rank these in the third column. In the fourth, give out the conditions that you could work under.

The fifth petal talks in terms of preferred salary and level of responsibility. You want a realistic picture of what you want  to earn at whatever job you find. Money is important because we need to pay for what we need. Also, happiness is very important. We  need to find a job that makes up happy. Find out what level you would like to work at-- whether it be CEO or manager oh whichever. Know what salary you are aiming. What do you believe you are worth and what do you need.  Create a expense chart on what you will have to pay for. This may help you figure out your salary.

Think about your preferred place to live. Create a picture in your head of the ideal place you would like to live. You can make a geographical preferences chart. This will include 4 columns. The first will be the places you have lived already. The second will be the negatives from the places you have live and the third you will translate the negatives to positives. The fourth will be the ranking of the positives.

Last, The seventh petal talks about your favorite interests and knowledges. Find out what these are by exploring what it is that you really like to do. Explore past things you have done also. These will help you with your ultimate goal. Put this chart all together and figure what job will be fit you. 

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In CASA Marketing Intro to Social Media Marketing, Todd Kelsey tries to get us to understand the importance of monitoring social media and analytics. We want to know how effective out social medias and we can do this by using monitoring techniques and analytics. This could be in terms of how many likes you get, how many followers, how many views, etc.

Monitoring can be divided into "owned media" and "earned media." Owned media is simply social media pages or properties that you control. These are like your Facebook, Twitter and blog posts.  These places you can post content, start conversations, and have direct access.  Earned media is "everything else" according to Kelsey. Its when people start their own conversations or maybe someone shares a post you have shared or posted. This is like the word of mouth aspect but in terms of social media.

Social medias use their own monitoring and analytics programs. Facebook Insights, Twitter Analytics, and Sysomos can all be used as listening and analytics tools. Other digital analytics tools include Radian 6, Google Analytics, and Omniture,

In the social media world, there is a need for speed.  Social media is a rather effective. It is a quick way to spread messages a business wants to get out there pretty fast. You can respond to people quick and let them know about new promotions and what ever you would like to share. People want to know all the latest news right now.

Hootsuite as I have talked about before, is a place to put your media together. This will make it easier to share what you want on which ever social medias you want. You can ever interact with people and shared things by posting it one time in Hootsuite and it will go to all your medias. It allows you use their analytics program.

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Hootsuite just like mentioned in the picture above is away to manage your social media. This can be used with LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and other social media. Its bring these all to one place. You can link post together and post on all the medias from one location. Potentially, this could be a large part of a social media marketing campaign. Go on to the website that is posted in the picture below--

Once you do this create a Hootsuite account!

You will have to pick a plan. Pick one that fits your budget and think about what you would to get out of this, in terms of social media marketing and how you would like to go along with what you need to do for yourself or your company. So pick your plan then complete the login information.

Once you have completed all of these steps, you will have to figure out how to use Hootsuite. If you need help, Todd Kelsey's Intro to Social Media Marketing book will help. Otherwise Hootsuite has resources to help you further, if you look at Hootsuite University on the Hootsuite web page it will go through tutorials. It will show you how to add networks, how to post and whatever information you will need. For the marketing side of it, you can keep up with the ROI and try to measure your marketing if you go further on the website. Try http://blog.hootsuite.com/build-and-measure-social-media-roi and http://blog.hootsuite.com/webtrends/

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Business opportunities are available in a lot of different place. One prominent place it's appearing more often is the internet and social media. In terms of social media, Linked In is becoming very popular and seemingly, a new must have. Its social place for business if you are not familiar with it. You can create a professional profile, while keeping up with businesses, colleagues, classmates, and friends.

Linked In is important especially, because doing things virtually is the new trend in this day and age. Creating a profile is relatively simple. Go to LinkedIn.com and create a profile. You can start by giving information about yourself. Give enough information so a potential business will know enough where they feel like they can higher you. You can add job experiences, certifications, awards, skills, and many other things, such as, volunteering experience.

Once your profile is complete, go over it an make sure every things looks nice and correct. After, its time to start connecting. I would recommend connecting with people you know and people that will could help you get a job, not ones that would hurt you from doing so. This is a great place for networking. You can find your favorite business, teachers, or colleagues.

After you find connections, you can do others things to stand out and stay connected. Posting is big part of getting exposure. All your connections will be able to see what your talking about. It could be some work you done or something interesting you wanted to share. If you have a business, this could be a great opportunity to advertise you business to.

Linked In is huge opportunity to get more exposure and share business information. You can even find a job through it. So my recommendation is to make a Linked in account and complete it thoroughly. This can help you tremendously.

Check me out https://www.linkedin.com/pub/zachary-rowden/a5/486/962 

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In your job hunt, sometimes it won't work out. However, you just got stay focused and stay positive. There is too much time spend on feeling bad for ourselves. What we need to do is find some resources and make its work for you. Richard Bolles says "Never give up," when you are hunting for a job in his book, What Color is your Parachute? 2016.

There are different way to go about the job hunt. When you are hunting and things are not working, we need to be critical and focus on our weakness and see if we can change things up to make it better. The traditional way to hunt for jobs is find a company, do some research, submit a resume. and go through the companies normal interviewing process. This can work out perfectly for some. However, we should be aware of the different options that we have to make this process more fluent.

Bolles talks about "The Parachute Way" to hunt for a job and the differences from the traditional way of job hunting. The "Parachute Way" looks at job hunting in a different perspective. Instead, of job we are looking for our dream job. We are not simply "job beggars" instead, we are resources looking to provide a benefit to someone. This is changing our thinking, We do not settle for less. We want find exactly what we are looking for. More way we can utilize "The Parachute Way," we can do our research on the company and ourselves to find out what we would really like. Then other processes come along, and as we move forward we want to approach the employer and instead of submitting a resume  we should try to find someone who know you and the employers. This is a bridge person, like a reference. Other key things involved in "The Parachute Way" include the interviewing process. We want to get the interview with them, then once we do this we should discuss ourselves and make sure you find out the information that you would like to know. You should find out if they want you and if you want them as employers. With that said, we will be asked questions, but you should ask questions to the employers about 50% percent of the time. Make sure you sell yourself as an asset and at the end of the process send a thank you note and follow up with the company.


Now if you are struggling to find places to look for jobs, I will give you some references to use that i have gathered from Bolles in his book. Check out postings on the internet, posting resumes and mailing them, answering local newspaper adds, yellow pages/phone book, employment agencys, jobs club, and asking for job leads. These can provide you with plenty of information and be used potentially to get a job.