What Color Is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual For Job Hunters And Career Changers (2012)

Description

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.

Author description

Richard N. Bolles has been a leader in the job-hunting field for more than 35 years. The author of What Colour is Your Parachute?, the best-selling job-hunting book of all time, Bolles has been the keynote speaker at hundreds of conferences. Bolles holds a Bachelors Degree cum laude in physics from Harvard and three honorary doctorates.