Books : What Color Is Your Parachute? 2009: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers (What Color Is Your Parachute?)
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by: Richard Nelson Bolles
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 650.14
EAN: 9781580089302
ISBN: 1580089305
Label: Ten Speed Press
Manufacturer: Ten Speed Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 407
Publication Date: 2008-10
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Sales Rank: 651
Studio: Ten Speed Press
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Product Description:
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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Rating:  - Parachute from One Job to the Next!
Richard Nelson Bolles coined the phrase "Parachuting" as a way to describe bailing out of your current job in order to find the career you really want. He was so keen on sharing his insights that he self-published `What Color Is Your Parachute' for the first time in 1970.
The now bestseller is updated with current practical job search information each year and is a constant source of relevant career change advice. Amongst other useful tips, Bolles points us towards the most effective ... Read More
Rating: - New to Parachute and Loving It!
This was my first exposure to the Parachute series (never needed it before now). The "Hard Times edition" is right! This book shed light on other ways to keep and advance my career that I had never thought of! A member of the Internet Generation, I have been relying only on networking sites like LinkedIn and RiseSmart resume editing services and job searches. These have gotten great leads, especially because they're personalized, but Parachute will be a worthwhile supplement. All young professionals, ... Read More
Rating:  - A gift for my son
He is unhappy in his job and I felt this book would be useful. I have not read it.
Rating:  - Just the Basics
I wasn't overly impressed with this book. It did give many of the basic information you would need to job hunt, but I was looking for something a little more than that. The best part of the book is the web sites that are provided.
Rating: - For Job Changing and for Self Evaluation - a Career Must
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 ... Read More
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