WCIYP: There Are Over Eight Million Vacancies Available Each Month

The premise of chapter three in What Color is Your Parachute? is that job-hunting is something that should be revered, not feared. Many people go into a job hunt negatively and think that it will be impossible in this type of economy to find a job. The author reiterates that job hunters should not be hopeless. Many people assume that finding the right job is impossible; however, many people seem to forget that the employers do not hold all of the cards. Job seekers can always change something about their resume or even find another job for the meantime in order to build up that resume. The author also writes that there are many vacant jobs within the workforce, but people are not taking advantage of it. In 2014, the month of December had 10,176,000 jobs available within the United States. If half of those jobs were taken, which they were, that is still 5 million jobs available. If that is not saying much then nothing else will. There are many jobs out there, people are just not trying hard enough to find them.

The author leaves the reader with four tips that they should consider when they job hunt. The first tip is that job hunting is not a science, but an art. It is art in the fact that some people are born with the skills and have mastered it without even trying. Yet there are also a lot of people who have to learn and are taught how to correctly job hunt. Another tip is that job hunting is mysterious and that people should not overthink it. There are just somethings within the job hunt that are positively and negatively indescribable. The third tip is that there is no "always wrong" way to hunt for a job. There are only degrees in which a job hunt may work or may not work. The next tip is the opposite side of the argument. There is a lot of ways one can mess up a "sure shot" job opportunity. Job hunts are not always possible and they are also not impossible. The author saves the most important tip for last. He writes that job hunting should be a full time job. Seeing how one cannot be considered unemployed if they are not looking for a job, the author has a point. There is no point in someone to look for a job if they do not take it seriously and do not put the work into it. The more someone puts into a job hunt, the more they will get out of it.