Chapter Nine in What Color is Your Parachute? discusses handicaps and how one should deal with them when it comes to the workforce. When someone pictures the word "handicap", they automatically think of being physically handicapped and nothing more and nothing less. Physical handicaps are one of the many types of handicaps that plague our world today. When someone is turned down a job they might think that they have a handicap that stopped them from achieving their goal. Whether it is not graduating from high school/college, being too thin/fat, being black/white. People can assume anything into a handicap whether it is true or not.
The two key ideas that the author wants the reader to know is that people should not generalize employers and that everyone has handicaps. 99% of the time employers will not generalize you, so it is not fair so you to generalize them. Employers usually look to find positive aspects of your work. They usually look to find things you can do compared to things you can't do. When you think about it, everyone is handicapped in one way or another. There is no one person in the world who is perfect. Everyone is good at something and everyone is bad at something. Handicaps are just negatives that people have that they should look for ways to fix. No one will ever have every skill possible and no one will ever try to. However, if there is a certain task that you are not fully sure with, it does not hurt to practice that task and become more skillful at it.
However, people should not look for tasks they cannot do. People should be looking at the tasks they already can do. The author gives the reader 246 transferable skills that can help anyone succeed in whatever job they apply for. Some examples include: acting, computing, auditing, recruiting, typing, serving, and giving. There are many skills out there. It is the future employee's job to extract that skill and put it to good use.
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