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What Color Is Your Parachute?
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A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers
By
Richard N. Bolles
This item is unavailable.We will email you if this item comes back into stock. | Rating: | | | Format: | Paperback / softback, 364 pages, 2012, 40th Anni Edition | | Other Information: | Illustrated | | Published In: | United States, 01 August 2011 |
The 40th anniversary edition of the world's leading job-hunting and career-change guide features time-tested strategies and cutting-edge updates to key exercises, making this the most compelling and helpful "Parachute ever. " Career guru Richard N. Bolles has been watching the job market go up and down--and helping job-hunters find their way through it--for four decades. In this anniversary edition of his best-selling guide, Bolles features the best-of-the-best of his advice and uses his hard-earned wisdom to teach job-hunters how to respond to challenging economic times. With tips on navigating social media and using the Internet to job-search more effectively, along with updates to his famed Transferable Skills Inventory and job-field exercises, this edition enables job-searchers and career-changers to clarify their goals and skills more easily, find job openings more quickly, stand out from the pack, and land a dream job. |
Reviews"No one has been writing best-selling career-advice books longer than Richard Bolles." --"Wall Street Journal", 9/15/11
""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"
| Publisher: | Ten Speed Press | | ISBN: | 1607740109 |
| EAN: | 9781607740100 | | Dimensions: | 22.83 x 15.77 x 3.0 centimeters (0.50 kg) |
| Age Range: |
15+ years |
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