What to Do When Your Job-Hunt Just Isnt Working

In my last two What Color Is Your Parachute blog posts, I talked about tips for interviewing, and secrets of salary negotiations. Tips and secrets are great tools to help land a job you may want, but sometimes tips and secrets still are not enough. Many people go to interview after interview and continue to get the same answer: No. It would be easy to give up after being told no so many times, but that is not the answer. This is your career and you should NEVER give up. In this blog post I am going to give you tips on what do if your job hunt just working.

In What Color is Your Parachute, Boles first talks about the two ways to hunt for a job. The first way is described as the traditional way, and the second is the "parachute way". The traditional way is described as the way that mostly everyone does it and how it's always been. The traditional way involves creating a resume, posting the resume, and sending out a ton of resumes. If that doesn't work, the next option is to send out even more resumes and hope that you receive some responses. The traditional way is described as the old and wrong way, and Boles suggest you should adapt to the "parachute way".

" The Parachute Way"

The parachute way is described as the new and correct way to hunt for a job. The parachute way starts by beginning with yourself instead of the actual job-market. This allows you to figure out who you are and what you most want to do. Once you have figured that out, you then decide which organizations best match you, and do not wait until they announce that they have vacancy. You should approach them anyway you can, specifically through a person, not a resume. The best person would be someone who knows you and someone who knows them. This approach is definitely harder than the first approach because is requires more work for you to do. It is not really easy to reflect on who you are and where you are going to go with your life. The parachute is your next option best option if the traditional approach has not been working for you, and you are in need of landing a full time job.