Week 12- What Color is Your Parachute Chapter 10

Job hunting can be a scary situation and a difficult one to stay positive about after numerous attempts. Many times when people get denied a job, they believe that it is something about them that is holding them back or a handicap. These handicaps can be anything from a physical disability, age, race or even personality. They believe that it is because of these issues that they are not going to get a job.

In chapter 10 of the book What Color is Your Parachute, author Richard Bolles discusses the idea of job hunting handicaps and how a job hunter can handle them. The first key that Bolles wants the reader to understand is that everybody can get hired, it just depends on the employer. Some employer somewhere will hire you, it is just on you to find those employers that will.

Another thing that Bolles wants the reader to understand is that everybody has a handicap. This does not mean a physical handicap, but something that a person does not have the ability to do.

As Bolles puts it, “Let’s say there are 4,341 transferable skills in the world...Let’s guess the average person has 1,341 skills...that leaves 3,000 things that the average person can’t do” (Bolles 222). Everyone is handicapped, but it is up to you to figure out what you can and cannot do. By doing this, you will have the best opportunity to find an employer that will hire you regardless of your handicaps because the skills you do have fit so well with the company.