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

Bolles, Richard N.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399581693 ISBN 13: 9780399581694

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 challenging job-market, the time-tested advice of What Color Is Your Parachute? is needed more than ever. Recent grads facing a tough 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 has led the career development field for more than 40 years. A member of Mensa and the Society for Human Resource Management, he has been the keynote speaker at hundreds of conferences. Bolles was trained in chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and holds 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. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Marci. Visit jobhuntersbible.com.

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: 0399581693
• ISBN 13: 9780399581694
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 352