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What Color Is Your Parachute? 2009: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers (What Color Is Your Parachute?) (Paperback)
by Richard Nelson Bolles
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Career development, Career guide |
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| MSL Pointer Review:
A time tested classic in its own right, Parachute is simply a job-hunter's Bible. |
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Author: Richard Nelson Bolles
Publisher: Ten Speed Press; 2009 edition
Pub. in: October, 2008
ISBN: 1580089305
Pages: 407
Measurements: 9 x 6 x 1.2 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA01555
Other information: ISBN-13: 978-1580089302
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- Awards & Credential -
More Than 10 Million Copies Sold
New York Times and Business Week Best Seller
Chosen by the Library of Congress as one of 25 Books That Have Shaped Readers' Lives
One of the Seven Essential Popular Business Books (Today's Librarian)
Best Overall Career Guide (Career World)
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They call it the number one career book of all time, mainly because it released annually. Parachute is really a primer in career exploration. Other books add a ton of value after you get this foundation. Because of that, Bolle's is timeless for job seekers of all kinds. I feel that his book updated each year to meet the current trends in society is critical. He needs to address those issues, like the web, downturn in the economy and the like.
The most critical part of the book is the self evaluation section which has been updated this year and which I am in the middle of, since I am looking into new avenues to use my skills. This is still a very structured process that can be used intutitively as well.
Bolles asks you to write a few stories about yourself, then ask yourself, what did you like and dislike about those stories? What did you do well, where did you fail or feel challenged beyond your abilities? These are the critical areas of the book that take time to get through, yet you can evaluate yourself and understand what you like, it is what you do best, usually. However, additional education may even help you get over those hurdles. He has a section for those over 50, we change as we age. This is really a great tool for retooling your career sites and your direction.
We excel what we are good at, according to Bolles, this method will help us discover what we are best at.
I still recommended this book to my friends and others who are seeking to find out what makes them tick. Whether someone is in college, or someone is going through a long term transition after being in a job for a long time or moms returning to the work place, this book will be very instructive for you.
One of his processes is very simple asking you to compare who you would most like to talk with or groups of people you would rather relate with. This is a standard set of tests for some very expensive career consulting, he gives it to you for the price of his book and the time to self evaluate. Then, he breaks down the possible job areas and skill sets related to these groups.
Again, a worthwhile journey for anyone not wanting to wonder and wander any longer in the world of work.
(From quoting a guest reviewer)
Target readers:
Managers, working professionals, college graduates, and other groups of working population.
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RICHARD NELSON BOLLES has been a leader in the career development field for more than 35 years. He has been the keynote speaker at hundreds of conferences. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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From publisher
Still the best-selling job-hunting book in the world, "What Color is Your Parachute?" is the most complete guide for first-time job seekers as well as second and encore careers changers. For more than three decades, it remains a mainstay on best-seller lists, from Amazon.com to "Business Week" to the "New York Times", where it has spent more than six years, and it has been translated into 20 languages. The 2009 edition is an even more useful book, with its updated, inspiring, and detailed plan for changing readers' lives. With new examples, instructions, and cautionary advice, "Parachute" is, to quote "Fortune" magazine, 'the gold standard of career guides'.
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Jacqueline Blais (MSL quoted), USA
<2008-11-12 00:00>
Parachute still soars with practical advice. This book is a steady seller, always making the USA Today annual list of top-selling books. No wonder: Parachute is practical and trustworthy. |
Barbara Presley Noble(MSL quoted), USA
<2008-11-12 00:00>
Parachute remains the most complete career guide around... It covers all the ground less ambitious books do, as well as some the others don't, mostly in the realm of the psyche. |
David Murphy(MSL quoted), USA
<2008-11-12 00:00>
What Color Is Your Parachute? has been the job-hunting classic for decades...Bolles always goes beyond the routine, including things like useful Internet sites and how to select a career counselor. It's virtually always the best-selling career book, and with good reason. |
Anne Fisher(MSL quoted), USA
<2008-11-12 00:00>
Ideally, everyone should read What Color Is Your Parachute? in the tenth grade and again every year thereafter. |
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