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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 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.

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When in the job process, you are trying to find the right fit in terms of you and the firm. One thing that you always have to keep in mind is salary. Money is always in the back of our minds or maybe someone's main motivation in looking for work. Either way, we can negotiate salary with employers and it is a perfectly okay.

In What Color is Your Parachute? 2016, Richard Bolles discusses how to appropriately negotiate salary with employers. We always want to make sure we get the right fit with the right income. So we should negotiate, but, Bolles strongly encourages not to discuss salary until they have made their decision about higher you or not.We would like to find out what this company is all about while not making it all about the money. After, we have gone through the process and figure out all we have wanted to know, we should then begin the negotiation.

While in the negotiation process, we want to figure out what is the most the employer is willing to pay. What you have to do is figure out the range of the pay the employer is looking for. When they give you a range, the average between those numbers is most likely what they would like to get you for. So figure out the range and try to get as close to the top of that range.

Going back to the interview, Bolles gives additional advice, saying we should not mention pay first. We should try to get the employer to mention it first because once you say a number is may be lower or high then they expected and you do not want to cheat your self out of additional income you could have earned. With that say, before your final interview, make sure you do some research on similar jobs and see what they pay. This will give you a better idea of how much you can potentially earn.

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Once you have submitted your resume, and get the call you have anxiously have awaited for, you will be on to the next step, which is the interview. The company is already interested in you, so it is your job to persuade them why you will make a good candidate. This experience can make one extremely nervous. Putting nerves aside, you can prepare yourself for a successful interview.

In What Color is Your Parachute?, Richard Bolles, gives 16 tips on interviewing, to help you get the job and decide if the job is right for you. Instead of naming off every tip, I would like to share what tips I find really helpful. If you need more help, check out the book and it will go more in depth.

Interviewing for jobs can be stressful, and discouraging with rejection. However, Bolles first tip describes "employers." He says that there are many employers out there, and some employers won't want to hire you. We need to face this fact. But some one out there will. So in this case we need to keep searching despite fearing rejection. You must keep in mind that every employer is different. You want to find a place that shares your values. "Every 'NO' you get out of the way, gets you one step closer to 'YES'" (Bolles 55).

An interview should always be prepared for, this is in terms of questions and appearance. In Bolles' fifth conversation tip is questions that you should expect in an interview. One of the most important questions is usually the first one. "Can you tell me about yourself?" This is like an elevator speech. You should be well rehearsed and talk about thing that make you seem valuable. This is your initial impression make it count. There are lots of other questions that may be asked. Just take the time and think about interview questions you have had before. Do some research on the company and figure out what they may what to know about. Research questions and prepare answers the best you can. Some questions you may expect are as follows--

Being prepared in terms of answering questions, is very important. Yet, there are other factors that you may want to turn your attention to involving appearance and attitude. We do not want rule ourselves out for something small. So pay attention to appearance and make sure you look appropriate for the job you are applying for. Be punctual and make sure you look your best. Try not to display bad habits or nervous mannerisms. Small things like this could bother the interviewer to the point where they do not want to call you back. This goes along with conversation tip nine from Bolles. Don't let small things kill an interview.

The last tip I want to discuss is conversation tip eleven. Bolles says "Try to think of some way to bring evidence of your skills, to the hiring interview" (Bolles 70). Thinking about this from the interviewers point of view,  they do not know you very well and they want to know whether to take the gamble with you or not. Providing some type of evidence will make you seem more credible, especially if you have something on paper, certain types examples of your experience with previous job, and/or a numerical figure. This can show the type of worker you and how you will handle potential situations. Help yourself out and be prepared with these types of tools.

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Many people have their own distinctive way of viewing job hunting. We all search job that we want and these certain opinions either help or hurt some. But keep in mind, there are many people entering and leaving the workforce, so this leave much room for individuals. You as the job hunter have every right to be nervous and worried, however there are many ways to shape the way you look for a job.

From What Color is Your Parachute?, Bolles gives his audience an alternative way to view jobs. He would go to say that job hunting is an art, not a science. Arts gives us the opportunity to be creative and unique as each person is different. If individuals need help there are many resources to help individuals get into a field that they are applying for. With that said, Bolles also would mention that it is a mysterious process, we never really know whats going to happen and this presents a challenge. Embraces the challenges and do the best you can to be prepared and know that you may have to be reactive to certain situations.

There is no always right and always wrong concepts. Certain things work for some job and certain thing do not work for other job. Like mentioned above, job hunting is an art. There might be some right things to and wrong things to do, however it is up to the you as the job hunter to be unique and learn about these certain things going through this experience. Remember this, Bolles says job hunting is or should be a full time job. We want employers and employers want you. Make yourself valuable and use this time to really figure out what you would like to do and make sure that you will fit into the business how you would like. We want the most successful position so take initiative to make sure its right.

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Upon reading What Color is Your Parachute? 2016: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers,  I came across a chapter that says Google is Your New Resume. Right at this moment it really hit me. A few ideas came to mind ever before reading the chapter. I began to think about my social medias: LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, etc. These social media have much of my person information on them. When I think in regards of jobs, some of these things can really be used to my advantage. However, some things can really be not so good for jobs and for everyone to see. For example, Twitter has lots of funny yet inappropriate videos, hence why I deleted my twitter. I would not like for my job opportunity to be diminished by an inappropriate Twitter post. So instead of making a new Twitter, I created a LinkedIn account. I replace a bad habit with something good. It allows for me to share my business achievements, stay connected with people at a professional level, helps me in job market potentially.

In book mentioned above, the author begins the chapter by giving advice to Google yourself. Basically, see how yourself checks out. If you have inappropriate content edit it out. Make sure everything looks nice. Keep in mind that your future employer could be look at anything that pops up when they google your name. Also, recommended to fill in all the blanks and make everything presentable. Give your information to the site, don't be too personal. For example, make sure you have pictures on LinkedIn, share your jobs and whatever blanks. I would just say be careful because some people will chose to use your information in a way you would not like.
In the chapter Google is Your New Resume, it gives many recommendations to improve your resume and to help you become very valuable in the work force.Use these tools as an advantage.

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