What Color Is Your Parachute? 1990: A Practical Manual for Job Hunters and Career Changers (What Color Is Your Parachute? (Paperback))

As always, readers of this phenomenally popular guide for job hunters and changers will find its latest edition the most helpful ever. Bolles packs his expert tips and tricks in the manual--as well as the revised "Quick Job-Hunting Map", a resource designed toward greater simplicity, promoting easier success.

How does one explain the secret of a book's popularity? Obviously, it gives readers what they want. Parachute ( LJ 6/1/73) certainly seems to do just that. It has become the career-seeker's bible, and if it doesn't itself answer most of the concerns readers have about the job-hunting process it refers them to sources that do. The text has remained apppreciably the same over the years, with updates where appropriate. New material has been added--job hunting for handicapped workers, making use of career counselors, finding a mission in life--in response to changing times and to readers' comments and questions. Since the book has been reissued annually since 1975, there is a good chance your library has a fairly recent version. If not, this 20th anniversary issue could be considered. It should have a healthy life span. For more on Parachute 's history, see "Contributing Factors," p. 130.--Ed . Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 9/15/89.
- A.J. Anderson, Graduate Sch. of Library & Information Science, Simmons Coll . , Boston
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