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What Color Is Your Parachute? 2020: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers

What Color Is Your Parachute? 2020: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers

Current price: $19.99
Publication Date: August 13th, 2019
Publisher:
Ten Speed Press
ISBN:
9781984856562
Pages:
320

Description

With more than 10 million copies sold in 28 countries, the world's most popular job-search book is updated for 2020, tailoring Richard Bolles's long-trusted guidance with up-to-the-minute information and advice for today's job-hunters and career-changers.

NAMED ONE OF THE ALL-TIME 100 BEST NONFICTION BOOKS BY TIME

What Color Is Your Parachute? is the world’s most popular job-hunting guide, revised and updated annually with more than ten million copies sold. This newly streamlined edition features the latest resources, case studies, and perspectives on today’s job market, revealing surprising advice on what works—and what doesn’t—so you can focus your efforts on tactics that yield results.

At its core is Richard N. Bolles’s famed Flower Exercise, a unique self-inventory that helps you design your career—and your life—around your key passions, transferable skills, traits, and more.

This practical manual also provides essential tips for writing impressive resumes and cover letters, networking effectively, interviewing with confidence, and negotiating the best salary possible.

Whether you’re searching for your first job, were recently laid off, or are dreaming of a career change, What Color Is Your Parachute? will guide you toward a fulfilling and prosperous life’s work.

About the Author

Richard N. Bolles led the career development field for more than forty years. A member of Mensa and the Society for Human Resource Management, he served as the keynote speaker at hundreds of conferences. Bolles was trained in chemical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned 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.

Praise for What Color Is Your Parachute? 2020: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers

“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 

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 

“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

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