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The eParachute Introduction to Your Career and Job Search (Udemy.com)

Discover Your Purpose & Ideal Career w/ the Author of the #1 Career and Job-Hunting Book “What Color is Your Parachute?”

4.6
715 reviews

Created by: Richard N. Bolles

Last updated June 2015

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What you will 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.

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  • Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 69% of them
  • Reviews715#28 of 116 by number of reviews
  • Length1.6 hoursshorter than 66% of them
  • Last updatedJune 2015earlier than 95% of them

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Course 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 FulfillmentToo 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 dont 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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Richard (Dick) Bolles' landmark book What Color is Your Parachute?" has sold more than 10 million copies and is revised annually. Parachute made the Library of Congress list of 25 books that shaped reader's lives, and has been lauded by TIME as one of the 100 ALL-TIME Best Nonfiction Books. Dick is also a co-founder of eParachute, which offers online career exploration tools inspired by his teachings. Dick has been featured in Fortune, Money Magazine, Business Week, The Economist, Fast Company, TIME, Forbes and Readers Digest. He has also appeared on The Today Show on NBC, and on CNN, CBS, Fox, and ABC TV, as well as on NPR and PBS radio.

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By B van Leeuwen on 11/22/2020

Erg onderhoudend. De materie wordt helder en enthousiast met leuke achtergrond geschiedenis anekdotes voorgelegd

By Anne Kiner on 9/21/2020

I love that it sets you up with the materials you need!

By Onipeju Akinyede on 9/8/2020

Its really easy to follow, concise and not too boring or exciting

By Ian Smith on 8/7/2020

I liked it, it's definitely complimentary to the book.

By Hayden Van Roon on 7/14/2020

This course was helpful, and the structure opened my eyes to my skills and a few possible career directions.

By Jake Rosser on 6/24/2020

Excellent course! This ought to be mandatory content for ALL high school graduates all over the Western world. Furthermore, if you're retooling your career, this is the best use of two hours you'll get for only a few bucks.

By Jason George on 6/23/2020

It's a nice supplement to book, but the book goes much more in-depth. The download summary sheets for the exercises are very nice to have.

By Brad Jorgensen on 6/17/2020

I have the 2019 edition of the Parachute book. I got as far as the third petal and then got distracted and have been putting off continuing ever since. It seemed silly at first to pay for a course that covers an older version (2015) of the same material, but I like video training so I thought I'd try it. In one week, I had finished my flower (I took some shortcuts, like researching the geography petal on the Internet, but still got a lot of value out of the exercise). Hopefully I can keep my momentum as I return to the book and put the flower into action.

By Natalia Soto-Crespo on 6/11/2020

Amazing course! I loved every exercise. It took some time to really delve deep into the subjects but I pushed through it. Can't wait to see the results of the work I accomplished through the workshop.

By Robert W. Jackson II on 5/7/2020

The information is interesting

By Karen Vargas on 5/1/2020

I was quite surprised at how fun this course is and thoroughly enjoyed the exercises. These are not the usual approaches to job search / identification and I was intrigued throughout. I found out a lot about myself and where I want to go in my career. Thank you for this course!!!

By James Dyer on 4/25/2020

All common sense and no real insight at all.

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