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