What Color Is Your Parachute? 2019: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers - Softcover

Bolles, Richard N.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0399581685 ISBN 13: 9780399581687

Publisher: Ten Speed Press, 2018

Synopsis

With more than 10 million copies sold in 28 countries, the world's most popular job-search book is updated for 2019, tailoring Richard Bolles's long-trusted guidance with up-to-the-minute information and advice for today's job-hunters and career-changers.

In today's complex job-market, the time-tested advice of What Color Is Your Parachute? is needed more than ever. Recent grads facing a changing economic landscape, workers laid off mid-career, and people searching for an inspiring work-life change all look to career guru Richard N. Bolles for support, encouragement, and advice on which job-hunt strategies work—and which don't. This revised edition combines classic elements like the famed Flower Exercise with updated tips on social media and search tactics. Bolles demystifies the entire job-search process, from writing resumes to interviewing to networking, expertly guiding job-hunters toward their dream job.

About this title

About the Author

RICHARD N. BOLLES led the job-search field for more than 40 years. A member of Mensa and the Society for Human Resource Management, he served as the keynote speaker at hundreds of conferences. Bolles held 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. Visit jobhuntersbible.com to learn more.

Review

Praise for What Color Is Your Parachute?:

"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

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

"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

"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

"It's basically the bible of career advice." 
--US Department of Labor

"Mr. Bolles continues to enrich and update it, expanding on concepts both universal and technical." 
--New York Times

Edition details

• Publisher: Ten Speed Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0399581685
• ISBN 13: 9780399581687
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 352