What Color Is Your Parachute? 2006,9781580087278

What Color Is Your Parachute? 2006

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Pub. Date: 2005-11-21
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Summary

Yes, this is the best-selling job-hunting book in the world with more than 8 million sold, but this year's edition is not your father's "Parachute. The 2005 edition faces squarely the "workquake" that is shaking up the job market around the world and gives not only simple steps but also steady hope.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments x
Grammar and Language Note xiv
The Problem
CHAPTER 1 Teach Me to Fish
1(10)
The ten most fundamental truths about the job-hunt.
How often we go job-hunting.
How often we change careers.
How many are unemployed currently.
Teach me to fish.
"Mastering the job-hunt": what it means.
CHAPTER 2 How to Master the Job-Hunt or Career-Change, Once and for All, for the Rest of Your Life
11(7)
Who gets hired, and why.
What to do when things go wrong.
When what worked in the past doesn't work anymore.
Length of the average job-hunt.
Data smog.
What it takes to be "an information specialist."
The importance of key words.
The key word in job-hunting.
CHAPTER 3 There Are Always Vacancies Out There
18(5)
What to do if there are no jobs "out there."
Losing your keys.
Finding a lost friend.
Percentage of the population who don't have a phone.
Number of people currently in the U.S. workforce.
Number of people who have found jobs.
When resumes fail.
Who will come to save you from unemployment.
CHAPTER 4 Best and Worst Ways to Hunt for a Job
23(12)
Alternatives are the key.
Not all alternatives were created equal.
What experts don't know.
The five worst ways to hunt for a job.
The five best ways to hunt for a job.
What works five times as well as resumes.
Seven times as well.
Ten times as well.
Twelve times as well.
The secret: what, where, and how.
Approaching an employer by telephone.
How many alternative job-hunting methods should you use? And why.
CHAPTER 5 How Do Employers Go Hunting?
35(12)
There are always two actors on the stage, in job-hunting.
What alternatives are open to employers?
Comparison with job-hunters' alternatives.
O-letters. How to transform lists.
Importance of prioritizing, how that changes everything.
Sample of an excellent resume.
Where to start: with what the job-market "wants," or what You want.
Job-hunting is exactly like a game.
When it is that you determine the rules of the game.
The Playing Field
CHAPTER 6 The Playing Field
47(14)
Nature as the playing field.
Nature on the rampage.
The tsunami of December 2004.
The result: the death of distance.
History of people's movements around the world.
History of information's movements.
Rethinking how jobs are done: career coaching as one example.
The coming of our fears.
China.
Outsourcing.
Wages here vs. wages abroad.
Effect of outsourcing on U.S. employees' morale.
The Polish Plumber.
Churning.
How to build a philosophy of Work.
The mortality of jobs.
Actual number of job vacancies.
How to transform any job.
Who are your brothers and sisters?
CHAPTER 7 Where on Earth Do You Want to Live?
61(26)
How many move each year.
The fourteen reasons why you might want to move.
Katrina.
States with lowest unemployment rates.
States with the highest.
1000 Places to See Before You Die.
The four issues you must solve.
The power of a picture.
Ratio of prayer to work.
Websites to help you explore places.
Going rural.
How to work while roaming.
How to get a job overseas.
What to beware of.
The Rip-Off Report.
Bad counseling firms.
Moving far: how to research that town or city at a distance.
When "contacts" can harm your job-hunt.
How hard should you expect to work, at this?
The detailed story of a sixty-six-year-old man, and how he made his move.
CHAPTER 8 Choosing or Changing Careers
87(30)
A map of how many options you have.
How many paths you can take.
Four "exercises" to help you refine and flesh out your vision of what you seek.
The helpfulness of drawing.
A list of 300 jobs or careers you can pick from (updated as of 3/29/05) and their requirements.
My favorite search engine: Metacrawler, and its virtues for you.
The D.O.T. and O*NET. Hot jobs.
Figuring out who you most admire.
Career tests, assessment instruments.
List of tests on the Web.
The Six Essential Warnings about career tests.
Warnings about degrees and jobs.
How to use the Internet to find out information you want.
Additional help for the job-hunter: megal-portals.
Google.
Job-Hunting on the Internet, companion book to Parachute.
My site: www.jobhuntersbible.com (free).
Viktor Frankl: What we can always hold on to.
CHAPTER 9 How to StartYour Own Business
117(28)
Basic tools for a home business.
The three major problems of home businesses.
The perpetual job-hunt.
How to choose a home business.
Your options: Mail order.
Telecommuting.
Franchises: virtues and defects.
Where to put your home business.
How to succeed: The A - B = C Method.
What to do when nobody has ever done what you're thinking of doing.
The five ways in which the Internet can help the self-employed, or any job-hunter or career-changer.
Helpful websites.
What to do when you just can't make your business succeed.
Stop-gap jobs: how to find them.
Temp work: how to find.
Job-sharing.
The three rules about taking risks.
The Creative Approach to Finding Meaning for Your Life: What, Where, and How
CHAPTER 10 The Secret to Finding Your Dream Job
145(118)
The Isle of You.
How one sentence can change your life.
What are you trying to accomplish with your life?
What did you come into the world to do?
The road to a dream job is a road that passes first of all through you.
How well do you already know yourself?
A simple exercise to test your self-knowledge.
Who am I? Example of how to fill it out.
Barbara Brown's secret to finding out who you are.
The three rules.
"That One Piece of Paper": The Flower Diagram.
Example of how to fill it out.
Rich Feller's flower.
The handicapped seventeen-year-old who wanted to be a pilot.
How he figured out what else he could do.
What pieces of information are more valuable than others.
Competencies.
Behavioral interviews.
The Nine Basic Steps to identifying your dream job.
The three main parts to the creative approach.
Part I WHAT skills do you most enjoy using?
159(31)
A crash course on transferable skills.
A diagram of your career.
The 3 objects of all skills: People, Things, and Data/Information/Ideas.
Skills vs. Traits: what's the difference?
Personality "TYPE" Tests.
Where on the Web?
Write a story; find a skill.
The five essential parts of a good story.
A chart to help.
How to analyze.
A list of your physical, mental, and interpersonal skills: a series of keyboard keys.
Six more stories.
How to prioritize your list of anything.
Prioritizing Grid for use with 10 Items.
Prioritizing Grid for use with 24 Items.
Building blocks of skills you most enjoy using.
"That One Piece of Paper."
A list of your favorite traits.
Some problems you may run into, in doing skill-identification.
How to do "trioing."
Shortcuts to all of this.
Part II WHERE do you want to use your skills?
190(38)
Your favorite environments, or "geographies."
Your favorite fields, interests, subjects, words, or vocabulary.
Go visit fields that fascinate you.
How to find "leads."
Petal #1: Fields of Fascination.
Definition of fields.
"The Subjects Chart."
Fields dealing with people's needs.
"The People List," "The Things Phone Book."
Petal #2: Your Favorite Places to Live.
What to do when your partner and you can't agree.
A way out of the thicket.
Backup plan: Throwing darts.
Petal #3: Your Favorite People.
John Holland's Six People Environments.
The Parachute Party Exercise.
Your Holland "code."
Petal #4. Your Favorite Values.
The Testimonial Dinner exercise.
Arthur Miller's list of values, and rewards.
Petal #5: Your Favorite Working Conditions.
Chart to analyze your past distasteful working conditions.
Petal #6: Level and Salary.
Minimum vs. maximum salary desired.
Making out a budget.
Getting help.
Other rewards.
The Flower is done!
Part III HOW Do You Find the Person Who Has the Power to Hire You for the Job that You Are Looking For?
228(35)
Now, what does "That One Piece of Paper" tell you?
The virtue of passion, or enthusiasm.
Puzzled? Put your top three skills and your top three fields of fascination on one piece of paper.
What to do with that.
The 19 Job Families chart.
Giving the Flower a name.
Ten Possible Targets.
How to cut down the territory.
Career, organization, particular place.
How to combine three fields to define your one ideal career target.
Chart: How to Understand Your Relationships with Others.
Informational interviewing: what it is, how to do it, questions to ask.
Always question what you're told: look for the exception.
Have a Plan B. Five ways to research places before you approach them for an interview.
The Crucialness of Thank You Notes.
What to do if you're shy: Daniel Porot's PIE System.
CHAPTER 11 Identifying Who Has the Power to Hire You
263(12)
How large is the organization?
The key is contacts.
What (or who) is a contact?
How to cultivate contacts.
How to get in, the place.
The interview as "rescuing the employer."
CHAPTER 12 Ten Interviewing Tips
275(38)
The most important things to remember, going in.
Behavioral interviews: goal, obstacles, solution, numbers.
The ten tips about successful interviewing.
The employer's fears behind the questions: chart.
Mosquitos vs. dragons.
Ask for the job.
Thank you notes — again (and again, and again).
Keep a weekly diary of your accomplishments.
CHAPTER 13 The Six Secrets of Salary Negotiation
313(22)
Researching salaries first, offline and online.
When to discuss salary matters.
How to negotiate.
Greatest secret of all.
Epilogue How to Find Your Mission in Life 335(24)
Appendix A How to Choose a Career Coach or Counselor 359(12)
Appendix B Career Counselors Guide: A Sampler 371(24)
Index 395

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