CHAPTER 8: JOB SEARCH OF THE FUTURE

A popular meme is circulating through social media: "Can we all agree that in 2015 not a single person got the answer correct to "Where do you see yourself five years from now?" This funny (and accurate) meme weighs on my mind as I try to write this article about job search in the future. If you subscribe to the chaos theory of career development, you certainly know the hazards of prediction, as applied to career planning. Later, it was a textbook for a class on "Vocational Aspects of Disability" in my master's in rehabilitation counseling program at West Virginia University. Because Richard Bolles' ideas about the job search are so ingrained in career thinking and are now considered standard practice, it would be easy to lose sight of how ground-breaking his ideas were at the time. Other updates included even greater emphasis on the value of developing a stronger social media presence, preparing for online interviews via Zoom, and a continued focus on developing hard and soft skills.