Useful tips from "The 2006 WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE?"

1st Tip: And that's what mastery is all about: knowing what to do when and if things go wrong.
:- It is important for us to know ourselves what we are exactly looking for and know our strengths before deciding on that careers.

2nd tip: The Five Worst Ways to Look for a Job:
1) Using the Internet
2) Mailing out resumes to employers at random
3) Answering ads in professional or trade journals, appropriate to your field
4) Answering local newspaper ads
5) Going to private employment agencies or search firms for help

The Five Best Ways to Hunt for a Job:
1) Asking for job-leads from: family members, friends, people in the community, staff at career centres-especially at your local commuity college or the high school or college where you graduated
2)Knocking on the door of any employer, factory, or office that interests you, whether they are known to have a vacancy
3) By yourself, using the phone book's yellow pages to identify subjects or fields of interest to you in the town or city where you want to work, and then calling up the employees listed in that field, to ask if they ae hring for the type of position you can do, and do well.
4) In a group with other job hunters, using the phone book's yellow pages to identify subjects or fields of interest to you in the town or city where you are, and then calling up the employees listed in that field, to ask if they are hiring for the type of position you can do and do well.
5) Doing a Life-Changing Job-Hunt (BEST) : Need to do intensive homework to cover 3 parts;

• WHAT- This has to do with your skills. You need to inventory and identify what skills you have that you most enjoy using. These are called transferrable skills.
• WHERE - This has to do with job environments. You need to decide where you want to use your skills, where you would thrive and where you do your most effective work.
• HOW - You need to decide how to get where you want to go. This has to do with finding out names of the job you would be interested in and the names of organisations which have such jobs to offer and the names of the people or person who has power to hire you.

3rd tip: The clearer your vision of what you seek, the closer you are finding it. It is the vision, Ithe picture of the life you really want, that you need to be concentrating on. It has the power to bring about the change you desire.

4th tip: Go talk to at least 3 people who are actually doing this career that you find so appealing and ask them these questions:

How did you get into this field?
What do you like best about it?
What do you like least about it?
How do I get into this career, and how much of a demand is there for people who can do this work?
Is it easy to find a job in this career?
Who else would you recommend or suggest I go talk to, to learn more about this career?

5th tip: Now is the time to fulfil your dreams and the vision that you once had of what your life could be. Even if it takes patience. Even if it means hard work. Even if it means changing careers. It is related to what the world most needs from you.

6th tip: Most job-hunters who fail to master job-hunt or find their dream job, fail not because they lack information about the job-market but because they lack information about themselves. Gathering information about yourself is to make a better decision about your life.

7th tip: Whether in stages or directly, it is amazing how often people do get their dream job or career. The more you don't cut the dream down because of what you think you know about the real world, the more likely you are to find what you are looking for. Hold on to all of your dream. Most people don't find their heart's desire because they decidee to pursue just half their dream - and consequently, they hunt for it with only only a half heart. If you decide to pursue your whole dream, your best dream, the one you would die to do. It is this passion which often is the difference between successful career-changer and unsuccessful ones.