SCENARIO:
WBL Coordinators should keep up with the latest career and employment knowledge and skills.
SOLUTIONS:
1. Keep active in reading the latest career books and materials
2. Attend professional development, webinars and conferences.
If you have taken any of my courses, you know I like to share with you career intelligence that you could share with your fellow faculty members.
What Color is Your Parachute, 2015, is a great book with lots of good advice to share. You do not need to purchase the book, but I highly recommend you add this book to your Kindle or IPad ($10.) as it is a really good reference book on the rules of today's job market.
What Color is Your Parachute, by Robert Bolles, has been updated and issued every single year since the 1990s. It is the "bible" to job hunting. There is a Parachute book for Teens and a special workbook available. Robert Bolles uses the Dr. John Holland Interest assessments as all of us do in NYS CareerZone and XI
Your task is to read the provided article and discuss your thoughts at the designated discussion site for this assignment. I think you are really going to enjoy the first chapter of this book and I can see you sharing this information with your family as well as the faculty.
DISCUSSION BOARD:
Read the provided first chapter of the Parachute book and discuss your thoughts about these topics:
1. Did you find the "whole new world of job hunting" an amazing wake-up call?
2. Out of the many changes in the job hunting process, what one item made your think twice?
Your interaction at the discussion site will be graded.