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What Color Is Your Parachute? 2013: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers [Hardcover]

Richard N. Bolles
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Aug 14 2012 What Color Is Your Parachute?
The world's most popular job-search book is updated for 2013 to tailor its long-trusted guidance with up-to-the-minute information and advice for today's job-hunters and career-changers.

As unemployment stretches on and people face new challenges in this economy, they turn to What Color Is Your Parachute? to help them find meaningful work. Combining classic elements like the famed Flower Exercise with updated advice on social media and the job market, this revised edition outlines what works-and what doesn't. Career guru Richard N. Bolles demystifies the entire job-search process, from resumes to interviewing to networking. Recently named to Time magazine's list of All-Time 100 Best Non-fiction Books, What Color Is Your Parachute? is a book of practical wisdom that should be required reading for all.

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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
 
“Ideally, everyone should read What Color Is Your Parachute? in the  tenth grade and again every year thereafter.”
Fortune
 
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  --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

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. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The uniqueness of this job-hunters' Bible Jan 12 2013
Format:Paperback
In 1997, I read the Chinese translation of the 24th edition of this book and found it's uniquely refreshing. I didn't exactly know why at that time. With some years working in the business world, I now think it probably has something to do with the entrepreneurial characteristics of this job-hunting book. Dick Bolles self-published the 1st edition of this book in 1970 and has made it the #1 best-seller of its kind. He is obviously a successful entrepreneur himself. The book, which is revised every year to reflect the changing job market, not only contains a comprehensive and systematic solution for job-seekers but also has one special chapter devoted to starting your own business. The tone of the author in the whole book sounds exactly like the tone of an entrepreneur: passionate, optimistic, resilient, risk-taking and forward-thinking...... I firmly believe job-seekers need to be quite entrepreneurial as they are basically trying to start a new enterprise called "Me Inc." and sell themselves.

I fully recommend this book to any job-seeker in the ever-changing job market as you'll most probably work as a temp or become an entrepreneur in the future to survive and thrive.

** Disclosure: I'm a career counselor in training at George Brown College in Toronto, and "What Color Is Your Parachute" is the major supplementary reading book in the program.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A must have book for Everybody! Jan 13 2013
By BV
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Great book that is simpley written. A must have. The author supports his arguments with commen sense as well as statistics.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good as always Sep 16 2012
By Ausfile - Published on Amazon.com
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What Color is your Parachute is a book which is always on my list of books to get every year. Each year he brings out a new edition. The editions change from year to year as he updates them according to world events. For example, due to the World economic Crisis he brought out a "Hard Times" edition in 2010 in recognition that the goal posts had shifted quite dramatically in the job-hunting / career-changing market. I purchase his books every two years. This year I bought the 2013 edition and on my Kindle. The book is excellent as always and is sufficiently updated and different from previous editions to justify buying the 2013 edition. The only drawback for me is that when he discusses interview situations they are normally situations where the job candidate is facing one interviewer. I normally face a panel of about 6 interviewers all with prepared questions and ticking off a list of criteria prepared by the HR department. But, all in all it is a very good book, well written and Richard N.Bolles' warmth as a person certainly comes across. The Kindle format does cause some difficulty however. Diagrams which are clear in the print edition are not easy to read on the relatively small Kindle screen. There is a facility to print those diagrams up if the Kindle is connected to a printer by WiFi but that is not often the case. This is not a problem using the Kindle app on the PC or Mac. I just found myself checking my print 2010 edition and used the diagrams from there.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Yearly Requirement Sep 26 2012
By Dr. G. - Published on Amazon.com
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Each year Dick Bolles comes out with a new edition of his seminal book "What Color is Your Parachute." Each year I buy it. WCIYP is one of those books you NEED to have on your bookshelf whether you already have a job or whether you are in the thick of a career transition or whether you are just starting out from college. There have been many clones of Bolles's book, but none have the rich depth of building upon that original title the way Dick has. His philosophy on career investigation, the method of motivating yourself, and the tips, techniques, and tools are invaluable. As long as a new version comes out each year, he'll sell at least one book,,,to me.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Buy this first Oct 30 2012
By GC Peterson - Published on Amazon.com
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Whether you're looking for work, or just want to learn more about what makes you tick, this is the definitive guide. When you finish your "flower", you'll have more confidence in what direction you need to go and have more self knowledge and self awareness of your skills, values, purpose, and what you want from your work.
I first read it in 1980, and the new edition is far superior and updated for 2013, which is approaching fast. Do yourself a favor, get the book, do the exercises and take charge of your life.
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