What Hue Is Your Bungee Cord?

<i>What Hue Is Your Bungee Cord?</i> is a take-off of Richard Bolles' <i>What Color Is Your Parachute?</i> Be careful in blindly following everything you hear from pseudo-experts. Before you leap check out the hue of your bungee cord! Checking out the hue of your bungee cord assures that your job-searching strategies tactics and tools work correctly before you take the leap into your job-search adventure.</p><p>If I wanted to find out how a terrorist really feels I would talk to a terrorist. I would not talk to a person with a PhD in terrorism. Analogously if I wanted to find out how to secure a good job in the current competitive job-searching environment I would talk either to those who are successfully searching and receiving good offers or to those who have recently found and accepted good jobs. I certainly would not talk to a supposed job-search expert who has not searched for employment in years.