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Making The Most Of Landing A Job Interview
For those seeking a new job, interviews present themselves as a goal that comes with significant anxiety. The interviewee is put on the spot and asked a battery of questions, and the high-stakes nature of needing a new job simply adds to the stress. The “What Color Is...
How To Negotiate A Salary The Parachute Way
As part of the “What Color Is Your Parachute?” Flower Exercise (link to TNS blog post on salary), you’ve already thought a lot about what kind of salary, fringe benefits, and other non-compensatory perks you want to see in a job. On balance, you have a range...
How To Identify Your Purpose In Life
If you’re been keeping up with our blog series, you’ve now completed three petals of the “What Color Is Your Parachute?” Flower Exercise. The center of the flower is the fourth petal: What Is Your Purpose in Life? This gets deep and introspective to consider your...
Flower Exercise Part 5: Defining Your Preferred Salary And Geography
For the last part of the "What Color Is Your Parachute?" Flower Exercise, we are going to look at petals six and seven together. Taken together they represent outcomes of your job choices and how they bring your life more satisfaction. First, in petal six you are...
Flower Exercise Part 2: What Are Your Skills And How To Prioritize Them
You’ve now gone through your first two petals and looked at the external environment of the types of people you want to be surrounded by as well as the working conditions you want to work in. Next, the “What Color Is Your Parachute?” Flower Exercise turns...
What Is The “Flower Exercise” And How Do I Use It?
The bulk of “What Color Is Your Parachute?” explores its hallmark Flower Exercise. Made up of seven key “petals,” it’s a guided effort to help job seekers understand what they are looking for in their professional life. It’s different from other programs in part...
Flower Exercise Part 1: What Kind of People And Working Conditions Do You Prefer?
Over the next few weeks, we are breaking down the classic Flower Exercise found in the career advice book “What Color Is Your Parachute?” The Exercise is a set of self-evaluations over different aspects of work designed to find a vocation that gives them more...
Why Job Seekers Need Help To Navigate A Successful Job Search
Readers of “What Color Is Your Parachute?” learn most job seekers need to dramatically change their way of thinking if they want to get an interview and eventually a job. Taking the time to understand the thought process of hiring managers, how they approach job...
Thanks To COVID-19, The Job Market Has Turned Upside Down. Now What?
Due to the spread of COVID-19, Americans have been engaging in social distancing and shelter-in-place orders for several months. Because of these public health orders, the economy has ground to a halt. As of April 30, national unemployment claims have risen to 30...
How to manage working at home with kids
One of the biggest changes for those working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic is the need to balance their children’s educational needs at the same time as they complete their work. According to Education Week, more than 55 million children across the country...
