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

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

          
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About the Book

The 40th Edition. This is not your father’s Parachute; and not your mother’s, either. They’d be astounded at the changes. This book keeps building--in insight, helpfulness, relevance, and urgency--through new invention and information each year. And this year it’s the critical resource to help Americans (and others) get back to work.
 
For forty years now job-hunters and career-changers have been turning to this, the world’s most popular job-hunting book, confident that each new annual edition will give them the most up-to-date information about the job-market and how to find meaningful work--even in the midst of challenging economic times such as these.
 
This year’s edition of What Color Is Your Parachute? has been vastly rewritten, because job-hunting has increasingly become a survival skill. Career expert Richard N. Bolles describes the five strategies most needed to survive, and explains how to incorporate social media tools such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter into your job-search.
 
The new ideas are wrapped around the familiar core message of Parachute: WHAT, WHERE, and HOW, with an emphasis on finding your passion and identifying your best transferable skills. With fresh insights into resumes, networking, interviewing, salary negotiation, and how to start your own business, this book will give you the tools, exercises, and motivation you need to find hope, land a job, and fulfill your purpose in life. In the words of Fortune magazine:
 
Parachute remains the gold standard of career guides.”

About the Author
Richard N. Bolles has led the career development field for more than forty 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 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 www.jobhuntersbible.com.

Table of Contents
The 2012 Table of Contents
 
Preface: The 40th Anniversary Edition of This Book     xii
Grammar and Language Note     xvi
 
Introduction    
Chapter 1: How to Find Hope     3
Chapter 2: Survival Skills You Most Need in Today’s World     13
 
I. Attitudes Necessary for Survival
Chapter 3: The Three Attitudes Necessary for Survival     23
Chapter 4: How to Deal with Handicaps     37
 
II. Advanced Job-Finding Techniques
Chapter 5: The Best and Worst Ways to Look for Those Job Vacancies That Are Out There     51
Chapter 6: Do I Really Need a Resume?     73
Chapter 7: Networking in This Age of Social Media     91
Chapter 8: Sixteen Tips About Interviewing     115
Chapter 9: The Six Secrets of Salary Negotiation     141
 
III. Advanced Job-Creation Techniques
Chapter 10: Starting Your Own Business     157
Chapter 11: Being Inventive Is Key to Survival     173
Chapter 12: How to Choose a New Career     177
 
IV. Inventory of What You Have to Offer the World
Chapter 13: Self-Inventory (The Flower Exercise)     189
          What skills do you most enjoy using?
          Where do you want to use those skills?
          How do you find the name of that kind of job (or jobs)?
 
V. Each One Teach One
Chapter 14: Teaching Survival Job-Hunting to Others     273
 
The Pink Pages
Appendix A: Finding Your Mission in Life     284
Appendix B: A Guide to Dealing with Unemployment Depression     303
Appendix C: A Guide to Choosing a Career Coach or Counselor     313
Appendix D: Sampler List of Coaches     330
 
About the Author     350
Index          351
Update 2012     359
Foreign Editions     360
Additional Helpful Resources from the Author      361
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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781607740100
  • Publisher: Ten Speed Press
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Edition: 40 ANV
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1607740109
  • Publisher Date: 16 Aug 2011
  • Depth: 32
  • Height: 228 mm
  • No of Pages: 364
  • Spine Width: 30 mm
  • Weight: 505 gr


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