What Color Is Your Parachute? 2014: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers Author: Visit Amazon's Richard N. Bolles Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1607743639 | Format: PDF
What Color Is Your Parachute? 2014: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers Description
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“No one has been writing best-selling career-advice books longer than Richard Bolles.”
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Wall Street Journal, 9/15/11
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What Color Is Your Parachute? is about job-hunting and career-changing, but it’s also about figuring out who you are as a person and what you want out of life.”
—Time “. . . one of the first job-hunting books on the market. It is still arguably the best. And it is indisputably the most popular.”
—Fast Company “Bolles knows what he’s talking about: his practical job-hunting strategies are based on years of research, and best of all, they really work.”
—School Library Journal “Ideally, everyone should read
What Color Is Your Parachute? in the tenth grade and again every year thereafter.”
—Fortune “There’s
Parachute, and then there’s all the rest. . . . a life-changing book.”
—Career Planning and Adult Development Journal “
Parachute is still a top seller and it remains the go-to guide for everyone from midlife-crisis boomers looking to change their careers to college students looking to start one.”
—New York Post --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From the Publisher
*A completely revised and restructured PARACHUTE for 2005.
*Focuses on the rising problem of unemployment in the economy’s current jobless recovery.
*Offers new techniques to help job seekers find meaningful work and mission.
*200,000 copy first printing.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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- Series: What Color Is Your Parachute?
- Hardcover: 368 pages
- Publisher: Ten Speed Press (August 13, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1607743639
- ISBN-13: 978-1607743637
- Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.6 x 1.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
"What Color is Your Parachute?" has become an American institution. This edition marks the 40th anniversary of the book's first publication, and the book has now sold more than 10 million copies. While I don't usually review books like "What Color is Your Parachute?" I find that it's such a unique and useful book on finding a job that it's worth encouraging people to read it.
My other copy of "What Color is Your Parachute?" is a much earlier one, and I can see by comparing it with this new edition that substantial changes have been made over the years. Unlike many other books that don't seem to keep up with the changing times, this new edition of "What Color is Your Parachute?" seems tailor-made for today's job market. In fact, "What Color is Your Parachute?" has been revised annually every single year since 1972 with the exception of 1975.
I like the way that "What Color is Your Parachute?" has always been more than just a standard guide to how to find a job but has always helped its readers think outside the box. For example, Chapter 1 of the latest edition is titled "How to Find Hope," and hope is something American workers need in an economy that is uncertain at best and shrinking at worst. Embedded in the idea of hope is a strategy of hope and a principle to live by, which is to not put all your eggs in one basket. Instead, you should always have an alternative: two ways to describe yourself, two ways to find a job, etc. And so the rest of Chapter 1 lists 18 ways to find a new job.
Chapters 3-14 go on to describe in detail the heart of "What Color is Your Parachute?" which are the 5 survival skills you most need today.
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