Richard N. Bolles: What Colour is your Parachute? Best and Worse ways to Job-Hunt.

Worst ways to look for a job	Success rate, if you only use this method	Side Note
Looking for Employers Job postings on the internet	4 to 10% success rate
Posting or mailing your resume to employers	7%
Answering Ads in professional or trade journals appropriate to your field	7%
Answering local newspaper ads	7 to 24%	(fluctuating success rate is due to the range in salary being sought)
Going to private employment agencies or search firms for help	5 to 28%	(fluctuating success rate is due to the range in salary being sought)

6 methods that range between best and worst methods	Success rate, if you only use this method
Asking a former teacher or professor at some school for job leads	12%
Taking a civil service examination	12%
Going to a state or federal employment services office	14%
Temp. Agencies	hit or miss
Going to places where employers pick up workers	22%	however it is generally odd jobs or day jobs and lots of time is spent waiting
Volunteering

5 Best Ways to look for a job	Success rate, if you only use this method
Asking for Job-leads from family, friends people you know, your community	33%
Knocking on the door of a factory or office that interests you whether they are known to have a vacancy or not	47%
By yourself, using the index to your phone book's Yellow pages to identify subjects or fields of interest to you in the town or city where you want to work, and then calling up or visiting the employers listed in that field, to ask if they are hiring for the type of position you can do, and do well	65%
In a "job-club" with other Job-hunters using the phone book's Yellow pages to identify subjects or fields of interest to you in the town or city where you want to work, and then calling up or visiting the employers listed in that field.	70%	This is based on a Job-hunters that meet daily
Doing extensive homework on yourself	86%

Bolles, R. 2013. What color is your parachute.

Thus, if knowing yourself is the number one way to find a job, then lets begin our course by asking the question Who am I?

Start with 7-10 pieces of paper and write down 7-10 words (one on each page) that describe who you are. 

Once you have your 7 or 10 words you are going to add various words that express that part of you to each page.

For example your seven words could be mathematician, poet, woman, sister, lover, health fanatic, believer.  And some of your added words could be lover of people, lover of God, food fundi, machine cook, powerful, wordsworth....