Richard Bolles - What Color Is Your Parachute?

(MacDougall and Sanders-Park)

North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes

The Occupational Outlook Handbook , 8.1, 9.1

Occupations.

See

Career-choice; Jobs

Offers.

See

Job offers

Older job-hunters

O’Neil, Tom

Online job-hunting, 1.1, 5.1, 6.1

Organizations

kinds of

making list of, 13.1, 13.2

researching, 8.1, 13.1

websites of

See also

Large organizations; Small organizations

Overseas jobs

Pancer, S. Mark

Pardo, Emilio

Parker, Yana

Part-time work, 8.1, 9.1, 13.1

See also

Temp agencies/temporary work

Party Exercise

Passion, importance of, 7.1, 13.1

Pay.

See

Salary

People

favorite to work with

skills dealing with

as sources of job information

as sources of salary information, 8.1, 9.1

See also

Bridge-people; Family; Friends

People-environments, jobs as

Personality types

Person-who-has-the-power-to-hire-you

fears of, 8.1, 8.2

interview with, 5.1, 13.1

in large vs. small organizations

See also

Employers

Philosophy of life

See also

Mission in life

Physical environment, effects of

Physical fitness

PIE Method

The Pie Method for Career Success

(Porot)

Plaxo

Please Understand Me

(Keirsey and Bates)

Pleasure interviews.

See

Practice

Interviews

Plunkett, Kent

Porot, Daniel, 5.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, app4.1

Portfolios, approaching employers with

Practice Interviews

Prayer websites

Prejudice, 4.1, 4.2

Prioritizing Grid, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4

Psychological Assessment Resources (PAR)

Pyramid of Life

Raises

Ready, Aim, You’re Hired

(Hellman), 8.1, 9.1

Reiter, Mark, 3.1, app3.1

References, in resumes

Relationships

guide to

repairing

Religious beliefs

career counseling and, app1.1, app3.1

definition of

healthy vs. unhealthy

importance of

prevalence of, app.1, app.2, app1.1

unemployment and

websites on

See also

Mission in life; Spirituality

Research

before hiring-interviews

on home businesses, 10.1, 10.2

on the Internet, 8.1, 9.1, 13.1

on job-hunting

on organizations, 8.1, 13.1

on salary, 8.1, 9.1

on self-employment, 10.1, 10.2

Resource person vs. job beggar

Resumes

alternatives to

contents of

dangers of depending on

e-mailing

employers’ vs. job-hunters’ views of

first impression from

format and style for

good example of

Google search as, 6.1, 14.1

mailing out randomly

posting online, 5.1, 6.1

purpose of, in one sentence, 6.1, 6.2, 14.1

success rate for

targeting particular employers with

tips for writing

Retirement, 4.1, 9.1, 10.1

Reviews, false

Rewards, favorite

RIASEC system.

See

Holland Codes

Robinson, Michael T.

Salary

desired

fringe benefits and, 8.1, 9.1

level and, 8.1, 9.1

of men vs. women

negotiating, 8.1, 9.1

raises

ranges, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2

researching, 8.1, 9.1

time to discuss, 8.1, 9.1

Salary.com, 8.1, 9.1

Salary Expert, 8.1, 9.1

Sanders-Park, Elisabeth Harney

School.

See

Education

Search firms

Self-confidence/self-esteem, importance of, 4.1, 8.1

Self-Directed Search (SDS), John

Holland’s instrument, 12.1, 13.1

Self-employment

“A minus B equals C” method

finding clients or customers

finding employees or vendors

key to success for

problems of

researching, 10.1, 10.2

on a shoestring

taxes and

Self-inventory.

See

Flower Diagram

Self-knowledge, importance of

Seligman, Martin

Seven Stories exercise (to identify transferable skills)

Shyness

enthusiasm vs.

overcoming, with Porot’s “PIE

Method,” 108–12

prevalence of

The 6 Reasons You’ll Get the Job

(MacDougall and Sanders-Park)

Skills, transferable (functional)

dealing with data/information (mental)

dealing with people (interpersonal)

dealing with things (physical)

evidence of, 8.1, 8.2

identifying, 4.1, 13.1, 13.2

inventory (grid)

levels of

as list of 246 verbs

prioritizing

traits vs.

Skype

Sleep, importance of

Small Business Administration (SBA)

Small organizations

definition of

job creation at

targeting, 8.1, 14.1

Smith, Chris

Smoking, hiring-interviews and

Social media

dangers of

editing

future of

networking through

sites, popular

terminating accounts

tips for

Spiritual counselors

Spirituality, app1.1, app2.1

See also

Religious beliefs

Stack Exchange

Style.

See

Traits

Subjects Chart exercise

See also

Fields

Success stories, 8.1, 9.1, 13.1

Suicidal thoughts

Surroundings, effects of

Survival

attitudes for, 2.1, 3.1

essential skills for

inventiveness as key to

preparing for

teaching skills for

Tardiness, for job-interview

appointments

Taxes, 10.1, 13.1

Telephone

area codes

counseling by

Skype

See also

Yellow pages

Temp agencies/temporary work, 1.1, 8.1, 9.1, 13.1, 13.2

Temperaments

Ten Commandments for

Job-Interviews

Tests

civil service

of traits

vocational

Texting

Thank-you notes, tremendous importance of

after hiring-interviews, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2

after Informational Interviewing, 7.1, 13.1

after Practice Interviewing

“That One Piece of Paper” exercise

See also

Flower Diagram

Things, skills dealing with

Tieger, Paul

Traits, 13.1, 13.2

Transferable Skills Inventory

True Colors Test

Turnover, job-market

Twitter, 6.1, 7.1

Types, personality

Unemployment

depression and

finding meaning in

national statistics on, 1.1, 1.2

as opportunity

Union hiring halls

Uniqueness, identifying your, 8.1, 14.1, app1.1

The Unofficial U.S. Census

(Krantz and Smith)

Vacancies

existence of, 1.1, 5.1

preferred methods for filling

Values

definition of

determining your

importance of

Videos, 3.1, 6.1

Vocation

See also

Mission in life

Vocational tests

Volunteer work, 1.1, 3.1, 6.1, 13.1, 13.2, app2.1

Wall Street Journal

Want ads.

See

Ads

Websites

for career information, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1

for home businesses

of organizations

on religious beliefs

on salaries, 8.1, 9.1

for self-employment

for social media

See also

Internet

Weddle, Pete

What Got You Here Won’t Get You There

(Goldsmith and Reiter), 3.1, app3.1

What’s Your Type of Career?

(Dunning)

Where Do I Go from Here with My Life?

(Crystal)

Whitcomb, Susan

“Who Am I?” exercise