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	(Person A:) "Hey, look! There are jobs in Seattle!" (Person B:) "Really? Lemme see that!"
	[Desperate, unemployed participants in the first LWC pilot group, 1993]
	Would anyone actually consider packing up and moving across the country on such a flimsy prospect? Apparently so! They saw this "news" in print, so how many hundreds or thousands of other fearful job seekers also saw it in print and were just as ready to Go West, Where There Are Jobs? What kind of jobs could they expect? How many competitors will show up at the same time? What level of mismatch between their talents and the employers' needs would they surely set themselves up for? Had these two people ever read or seen The Grapes of Wrath? This is a classic illustration of the "job beggar" mentality that Richard Bolles describes in What Color Is Your Parachute? As in: "I'll take anything. What have you got?"
	What an LWC group offers: Parachute juxtaposes "valuable resource person" against "job beggar." LWC's entire program focuses on proactive definition of work for which you will be seen as a resource of value to an employer. The LWC program minimizes reliance on the resume and public job postings. In an LWC group, you learn how to define Plan A work--and then show up for it, to the likely delight of an employer who doesn't need to know how you found them. The point is, they are free to think they found you. And more often than you might suspect, you're the only candidate for an unannounced job, or at least on the inside track by way of a "warm referral" instead of cold-call resume submission. The LWC group experience dispels rampant negativism. It reinforces confidence through self-definition, and recognition and affirmation from others of your strengths and value.

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