1. Finding a Job From What Color is Your Parachute?

2. Two Truths About Job Market  There are always jobs out there  Whether you can find them depends on your methods of job-hunting

3. The Worst Ways to Find a Job  Mail out resumes at random (7% success)  Answering ads in professional or trade journals (7%)  Answering non-local newspaper ads (10%)  Answering local newspaper ads (5-24%)  Going to private employment agencies (5- 24%)

4. The Best Ways to Find a Job  Ask for job leads (33% success rate)  Knocking on door of prospective employer (47%)  Creative Approach to Job-Hunting (86%)

5. Creative Approach  Do thorough homework, and inventory, upon yourself. Know in what kinds of fields you want to use those skills.  Talk to people who are in those kinds of jobs. Find out if they like their job and how they found their job.

6. Creative Approach (2)  Choose organizations where you want to work. Do research on those organizations.  Seek out the person who actually has the power to hire you for the job you want. Use your personal contacts to get to him or her.  Show how you can help your prospective employer solve their problems.  Cut no corners, take no shortcuts.

7. Remember, Every Job…  Is temporary, that is, of uncertain length  Is a seminar  Is an adventure  Is one where the satisfaction must lie in the work itself Might not get praise If you like it, you will be good at it and v.vs.