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What Color Is Your Parachute? 2022: Your Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career Success Kindle Edition

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With timeless advice, up-to-the-minute insights, and more than ten million copies sold over fifty years, the world’s most popular and best-selling career guide is fully revised and expanded for 2022.
 
“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

What Color Is Your Parachute? is the world’s most popular job-hunting guide. This completely updated edition features the latest resources, strategies, and perspectives on today’s job market, revealing surprising advice on what works—and what doesn’t—so you can focus your efforts on tactics that yield results.
 
At its core is Richard N. Bolles’s famed Flower Exercise, a unique self-inventory that helps you design your career—and your life—around your key passions, transferable skills, traits, and more.
 
This practical manual also provides essential tips for writing impressive resumes and cover letters, networking effectively, interviewing with confidence, and negotiating the best salary possible.
 
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 a fulfilling and prosperous life’s work.
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The world’s most popular and best-selling career guide

One of the first job-hunting books on the market. It is still arguably the best says Fast Company

A time-tested guide, fully revised and expanded for 2022

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A Companion to the World's Most Popular and Bestselling Career Handbook An interactive companion to the world's most popular job-search book, updated for 2021, that helps you translate your personal interests into marketable job skills. Pave Your Path from Major to Meaningful Work A modern guide for students on how to choose a major, create a four-year plan, make the most of your college experience, land an internship, and successfully secure your first job.) Discover Yourself, Design Your Future, and Plan for Your Dream Job. This new edition features time-tested techniques such as information interviewing, the latest job discovery tactics, how to connect to and land great internships, and more.

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“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
“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 

“Ideally, everyone should read What Color Is Your Parachute? in the tenth grade and again every year thereafter.”—Fortune

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Richard N. Bolles led the career development field for more than forty years. A member of Mensa and the Society for Human Resource Management, he served as the keynote speaker at hundreds of conferences. Bolles was trained in chemical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned a bachelor’s degree cum laude in physics from Harvard University, a master’s in sacred theology from General Theological (Episcopal) Seminary in New York City, and three honorary doctorates.
 
Katharine Brooks is an award-winning, nationally certified counselor and board-certified coach. She is the author of What Color is Your Parachute? for College and You Majored in What?: Designing Your Path from College to Career and writes a blog, “Career Transitions,” for Psychology Today.

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Richard Nelson Bolles is the author of What Color Is Your Parachute? A Practical Guide For Job-Hunters and Career Changers, the most popular job-hunting book in the world, which has sold more than 10,000,000 copies since its first publication. Parachute is dramatically updated, reshaped and rewritten every year, and has been translated into 20 languages and published in 26 countries.

What Color Is Your Parachute? was chosen as one of the all-time 100 best nonfiction books by Time magazine, and was selected as one of 25 books that have shaped people's lives (throughout history) by the Library of Congress' Center for the Book.

A member of Mensa and the Society for Human Resource Management, Bolles has been the keynote speaker at hundreds of conferences. He 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 is credited with founding the modern career counseling field, and is often described as the field's foremost authority. Bolles is a recipient of the National Samaritan Award, whose previous honorees include Karl Menninger, Betty Ford, and Peter Drucker. He is also one of LinkedIn's 300 "Influencers" or "thought leaders," and writes regularly for the site as well as a number of others. In 2014, he was named one of the "Wealth Wizards" in the U.S. by Forbes Magazine—along with Warren Buffett and 18 others.

Dick has three grown children, Stephen, Sharon, and Gary, and lives with his wife, Marci, in the San Francisco East Bay Area.

Learn more at parachutebook.com.

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Conor J. McGaley
5.0 out of 5 stars Not made in China
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Teresa Michonne
5.0 out of 5 stars Good Guide!
Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2022
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I read a much earlier edition of this book many years ago and it was very helpful. I purchased this edition for my 18, 19, and 20 year old kids. They have been struggling trying to figure out what they want to do. Not that they have to make a final decision now and even if they do it doesn’t ever have to be final but it’s a good book to help decide what might be good for you.
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Rachelle D Huitink
5.0 out of 5 stars Must Read for anyone contemplating their professional future
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Few books have ever provided me with the kind of clarity this book has as to what direction I need to pursue a professional future. This should be a must read for anyone contemplating how they are wired and how their wiring fits with a "real" job. I wish I had read this in the later part of my collegiate journey (the first time). Read it. Do the exercises.
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4.0 out of 5 stars It's a good book ...
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I've purchased this book for many years and found it very helpful and informative. I've bought it for myself, and for others, and have recommended it to many. It has a lot of great information and it is updated annually.

Unfortunately, one irritating thing about the recent edition is that it is becoming disgustingly, politically correct. I'm getting tired of radical organizations shoving PC language down our throats as if Americans are hateful and prejudiced people. We are not hateful and such forced PC language actually causes misconceptions, friction, divisions, and hatred that did not exist before. I'm just tired of it, like many people that I know.

I still recommend this book because it is a great resource.
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Daughter wanted this and another book as part of her Christmas present. She found it very informative.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect for career changes post-degree graduation
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Recently graduated with a master's degree and faced with writing a CV and other tasks. I'm not new to these exercises, competing them for the career change really helped me hone in on what to write for the teaching philosophy, cover letter, and other surprise requests that came along with applying for a new job field.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Advice!
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This updated classic helps readers put values and goals in perspective as they search for the career they were meant to have.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Another classic…
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Good Book
Reviewed in Canada on July 4, 2022
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Way back in 1995 when I was looking for a job a friend of mine gave me this book. I found it to be super valuable with many great ideas. Over the years I was pleased to give current editions of this book to people who were job searching. In 2022 I am pleased to be able to once again give this book to a friend.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Anscheinend nicht für weiße Männer geschrieben
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Es fängt mit recht guten Tipps an, wie man sich während einer schwierigen Phase seelisch über Wasser hält: Dafür 2 Sterne.

Dann geht es los mit "Diversity, Inclusivity, Equity". Rauf und runter. Ein paar Auszüge:

- "Often organizations will post photographs of their board members (...)
How diverse (or homogeneous) are the individuals in those photos?"
- "Note if the company employs (...) 'Chief Diversity Officer' or 'Director
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- "Simply asking, 'How does your organization support diversity and inclusion?'
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Ania
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It’s a brilliant book. I’ve now bought it for a friend who has been undecisive whether to stay in her field & continue to be unhappy or where to expand her search & her horizon.

Back in 2011 one particular sentence got me a job in a very acclaimed company. How do I know. They repeated it back to me after the preliminary interview & they quoted: You said you ‘’like a challenge & your capabilities to be stretched.’’ We have decided to offer you another position that would be in line w/ that.
True story. I hope it can do the same for my friend & for many other people & to inspire you on your journey in pursuit of a great role in a place where you will be able to thrive.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Overrated
Reviewed in Australia on January 25, 2023
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Not bad but all information common sense or available for free on blogs.

Supremely overrated.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Helpful and amazing
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This book was my hero to know myself and what I want for myself in live
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