Week 8- What Color is Your Parachute Chapter 6

The grind of a job hunt can be a very difficult one. With many of the attempts not going the way that one would hope, it would seem like giving up may be the better option. But giving up should never be an option, when the search gets tough you must keep pushing to get the job that you need and want.

In the book What Color is Your Parachute by Richard Bolles, the author discusses the difficulty of getting a job and how easy it may feel to give up on the job hunt. As Bolles describes the three most important rules for job-hunters, “1. Never Give Up 2. Never give up 3. Never give up” (99). Once you rebuild your confidence and keep driving toward a job, success will come.

Bolles continues the chapter by discussing how successful different job hunting strategies are for people looking for a job. Most of these ideas are not as successful such as looking for employers’ job postings on the Internet, posting or mailing out your resume and answering local newspaper ads which have a success rate between 4% and 30%. Though those are not as successful for job-hunters other strategies discussed such as job clubs, using the Yellow Pages to contact companies and knocking on the door of a company have had success rates 47% and 84%.

The job hunting process may seem hopeless at times and it may seem like you may never get the job you want, but this is only the time you need to push harder. Change your approach to job hunting: use the Yellow Pages, approach companies looking to apply for jobs, use as many resources as possible including friends and family. Never give up, keep pushing and success will find you.