What Color Is Your Parachute?: A Practical Manual For Job Hunters And Career Changers: 2016

Author: Richard Nelson Bolles

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Description

What Color Is Your Parachute? is the world's most popular job-hunting guide, revised and updated annually, with more than ten million copies sold. This 2016 edition features the latest studies and perspectives on today's job-market, including proven strategies for finding jobs even when everyone tells you there are none. Career expert Richard N. Bolles reveals surprising advice on what works--and what doesn't--so you can focus your efforts on tactics that yield results.
This helpful manual shares proven tips for writing impressive resumes and cover letters, as well as guidance for effective networking, confident interviewing, and the best salary negotiating possible. But it goes beyond that by helping you to zero in on your ideal job--and life--with its classic Flower Exercise. Whether you're searching for your first job, were recently laid off, or are dreaming of a career change, What Color Is Your Parachute? will guide you toward fulfilling and prosperous work.


From the Hardcover edition.

Reviews

"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] Books that Shaped Work in America. How could I not put this on the list? . . . In print since 1970 and revised every year since 1975, it has not only informed and educated job seekers and job changers in the United States, but also had a global impact through publication in more than 20 languages. It s basically the bible of career advice. United States Department of Labor Richard is a giant both in my life and certainly in the field. When you think about his contributions to . . . understanding the whole notion of three boxes of life, creating the flower exercise, and the three questions that really help drive our job-finding activity it is quite remarkable because it certainly changed my life personally, and it changed most of the work that career counselors and specialists and coaches perform. And I would expect it changed all of our work as we think about how we grow talent in organizations. Rich Feller, 2012 2013 president of the National Career Development Association (NCDA) The new edition of the best-selling job-hunting book "What Color Is Your Parachute?," in addition to the tried-and-true advice for job seekers Dick Bolles has provided for close to forty years, has new information on job-search productivity, job clubs, and how to organize and manage your job-search. "What Color Is Your Parachute?" is deservedly the world s most popular job-hunting book, with over eleven million copies sold in twenty-six languages.This . . . edition is as relevant today as when it was first published. Dick Bolles insightfully stays on the cutting edge of job-searching, and the book is full of new and updated suggestions, along with the classic advice that continues to hold true today. Alison Doyle, About.com Guide The people who can educate employees and job seekers on how to really find jobs (and careers) are career counselors and career coaches. Ideally, a good coach should buy copies of "Parachute" at wholesale and give a copy to every one of their paying clients. Richard Knowdell, trainer of career counselors and coaches . . . 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" This is a fantastic tool useful to almost everyone. . . . It s so darn useful because it is about more than just finding a job. Kevin Kelly, "Cool Tools: A Catalog of Possibilities" Ideally, everyone should read "What Color Is Your Parachute?" in the tenth grade and again every year thereafter. "Fortune" "

Author description

RICHARD N. BOLLES has led the job-search field for more than 40 years. A member of Mensa and the Society for Human Resource Management, he has been the keynote speaker at hundreds of conferences. Bolles holds a bachelor's degree cum laude in physics from Harvard University, a master's degree from General Theological (Episcopal) Seminary in New York City, and three honorary doctorates.