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The eParachute Introduction to Your Career and Job Search
Rating: 4.6 out of 5(714 ratings)
2,905 students
Created byRichard N. Bolles
Last updated 6/2015
English

What you'll learn

  • Gain a new understanding of yourself, who you are, and the unique talents, skills and gifts you already have.
  • Have the ability to describe in detail what your ideal job would look like, and what are the gifts you have to offer the world.
  • Have the ability to explain clearly to a prospective employer what makes you uniquely fitted to help them achieve their goals.
  • Have much stronger self-esteem and self-confidence.
  • Have the ability to know how to decide what is most important to you when faced with different options.

Course content

9 sections • 43 lectures • 1h 16m total length

  • About This Course1:48

    What you can expect from this course. What you should be prepared to do in the course. What you'll get out of the course once you complete it.

  • What's a Self-Inventory?2:02

    The core part of job-hunting, career change, or finding your purpose in life is "self-inventory." In this module, you'll learn what it is, and why it's so important.

  • Handout: The Flower - A Self-Inventory (print before watching Lecture 4)1:00
  • Overview of The Flower3:01

    Self-inventory works best if we use both words and pictures. This module will teach you why this is true, and how you can best organize the information about yourself.

  • Handout: Why You Need to Dream Big (print before watching Lecture 6)1:00
  • Seeking Your Dream Job3:04

    You need to set a high bar when you job-hunt, career change, or search for purpose. In this module, you'll learn why, and about the importance of prioritizing what you learn.

Requirements

  • The willingness to do a bit of remembering.
  • The willingness to do a lot of thinking.
  • The willingness to follow directions carefully.
  • The willingness to trust that this course has a long history of actually working; it has currently helped up to 10 million people.

Description

We all face times in our lives where we have to make challenging, sometimes life-altering decisions. We might be choosing or switching careers, or picking a college major. We might be going through a divorce or other moment of crisis. Sometimes it can simply be recognition of a lack of fulfillment and purpose in our personal and professional lives.

Discover Your Passions and Your Ideal Career Using the Methods of the World's #1 Career and Job-Hunting Book, “What Color is Your Parachute?"

  • Gain a new understanding of yourself, who you are, and the unique talents, skills and gifts you already have.
  • Be able to describe in detail what your ideal job would look like, and what are the gifts you have to offer the world.
  • Develop the ability to explain clearly to a prospective employer what makes you uniquely fitted to help them achieve their goals.

Self Inventory as a Path to Employment and Career Fulfillment

Too often, career search begins with looking for employment vacancies; scanning the job markets and trying to figure out how to best “fit in", writing a resume, searching employment ads, and replying and waiting for responses.

This is what I refer to as the “Traditional Method" of career search.

But not all career search methods are created equal. In fact, as outlined in my book, most job hunters and career changers would be shocked to see just how ineffective the Traditional Method of job hunting really is. And when a job is acquired, too often that job isn't one that we find fulfilling, that truly aligns with our skills and knowledge and passions.

For over 40 years, I've been offering an alternative – one that really works, one that has been helped up to 10 million people. And it all begins with the information in this course, which I call “self inventory".

Why would a career search start with self-inventory? It's simple, really - because the best answer to “What shall I do?" flows from knowing “Who you are".

By the end of this course, you will have a new understanding of yourself, and your unique talents, skills and gifts. You will know what your ideal job looks like, to you. You will be able to explain clearly to an employer what makes you uniquely qualified to help them achieve their goals.

You will stop acting as a “job beggar", and instead will see yourself as a “resource" – ready to search for the employer for whom you will already be a perfect fit.

You do need to know that you will need to do a lot of writing (or audio recording) of yourself. There is a lot of material here. There is a handout or exercise for each of this course's seven parts. This will take time, though you can do it in a week, if you do one unit each day. And it is important to do all the units in this course.

But if you stick with it, by the end of the course you will have a picture of who you most fully are. A picture of a job that will give voice to all you are. And where you would shine, because it uses the best of who you are.

And you will be well on your way to the career of your dreams.

Who this course is for:

  • People trying to understand themselves better.
  • Students trying figure out their college major, or a first career.
  • People trying to decide what to do next, with their lives.
  • Workers who are fed up with their job, and who want to choose a new career.
  • The long-term unemployed.
  • Those wondering what an ideal job for them would be.
  • If you don’t have the willingness to put in a bit of hard-work (thinking), this course may not be for you.
  • If you are looking for someone else to quickly answer the question of “What shall I do with my life?” for you, this course may not be for you.
  • If you are unwilling to do all the units in this course, this course may not be for you.

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