What Color Is Your Parachute? 2014: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers by Richard N. Bolles

Author:Richard N. Bolles [Bolles, Richard N.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781607743644
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Published: 2013-08-12T14:00:00+00:00

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Okay, like Rich, you’ve now got your completed Flower.

Nice diagram. What do you do with it?

Well, that’s the subject of our next chapter.

1. Such as (the late) Barbara B. Brown, who was the first to coin the term biofeedback and to bring it to the public’s awareness back in 1974, with her groundbreaking book (at the time) New Mind, New Body. She made these points in a public lecture in 1976. See her bio on www.wikipedia.com.

2. “Tight ship”: you clock in and clock out, work under strict conditions; “loose ship”: you have greater leeway about when you come in, or go home, they want your creativity above all else, and there is no time clock or tight supervision of your day.

3. This page is just for note-taking and jotting down your idle thoughts on each subject. The real Flower is on pages 184–85, and it is there that you enter the final results of each exercise in this chapter.

4. By the way, if you want to use or visit the D.O.T. it’s now online at www.occupationalinfo.org, and can be downloaded to your computer.

5. There is, incidentally, a relationship between the people you like to be surrounded by and your skills and your values. Most of us don’t need to go down that road, but if you’re curious, you’ll need John Holland’s book, Making Vocational Choices (3rd ed., 1997). You can procure it at your local public library or (if you can afford it) by going to the Psychological Assessment Resources (PAR), Inc., website at www4.parinc.com, and entering the word “Holland” in the search engine there; or by calling 1-800-331-8378. The book is $58.00 at this writing. PAR also has John Holland’s instrument, called The Self-Directed Search (or SDS, for short), for discovering what your Holland Code is. PAR lets you take the test online for a small fee ($4.95) at www.self-directed-search.com.

6. Amusing anecdote: John was a good friend of mine, and when I first showed him this Party Exercise I had invented, I asked him what he thought of it. With a twinkle in his eye he snorted, “Huh! Probably put me out of business!” Nope, it didn’t. His SDS has sold more than thirty million copies, and is the basis for many other career tests or instruments.

7. Incidentally, John always encouraged people to write down somewhere all six versions (technically called permutations) of your code. Thus, if your code were, say, SIA, its permutations would be: SIA, SAI, IAS, ISA, ASI, AIS. This is especially useful if you are ever going to look up careers that correspond to your code. Put “Holland codes for careers” into your favorite search engine, and you will find such sites as www.vista-cards.com/occupations.

Further, he and I worked together on this application of his system to daydreams: list all the things you’ve ever dreamed of doing. Then, to the right of each, try to guess—guess!—at what you think the three-letter Holland code would be for each.

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