What Color Is Your Parachute? 2008: A Practical Manual for Job-hunters and Career-Changers
by: Richard N. Bolles
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WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? is still the best-selling job-hunting book in the world. A favorite of job hunters and career changers for more than three decades, it continues to be a mainstay on best-seller lists, from Amazon.com to Business Week to the New York Times, where it has spent more than six years, and has been translated into 12 languages. The 2008 edition is an even more useful book, with its updated, inspiring, and detailed plan for changing readers' lives. With new examples, instructions, and cautionary advice, PARACHUTE is, to quote Fortune magazine, "the gold standard of career guides."
WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? is still the best-selling job-hunting book in the world. A favorite of job hunters and career changers for more than three decades, it continues to be a mainstay on best-seller lists, from Amazon.com to Business Week to the New York Times, where it has spent more than six years, and has been translated into 12 languages. The 2008 edition is an even more useful book, with its updated, inspiring, and detailed plan for changing readers' lives. With new examples, instructions, and cautionary advice, PARACHUTE is, to quote Fortune magazine, "the gold standard of career guides."
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- speak to us in our shared language, please
I couldn't make it very far in this book because its grammar is so bad. The author explains in his preface that we should not complain about the grammar as he's devised a system of his own and it works for him, which I guess means that he is writing only for himself. Meanwhile, the rest of us who know only the shared idiom are left out in the cold.
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- Some of the best career advice you will get...
No point in going into too much detail.
Simply - This book will put you in the correct frame of mind to look for a job or to change career. It will not teach you how to write a resume or cover letter, but it will give you the mindset and skills to do it properly.
Well written and easy to read, it makes you take a good look at yourself before going out to dedicate yourself to a vocation that will take up 50% of your adult life.
Buy it if you are looking for ... Read More
Rating: - Why didn't they tell us this before?
I think this book is awesome.The guidance, advice, and just general content is well worth the read.And it's an easy read. It's well organized into short, precise, and upbeat sections.The advice makes sense and I'm puzzled why none of my guidance, academic, or career counselors ever provided such helpful, real, and relevant information.It is exactly what I was looking for.I love all the website recommendations.
Rating: - Great, quick, clean....
This book is awesome... I have to put it down every few pages because I like to put thought and intention into the exercises.... it is hopeful, knowledgeable and encouraging...
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- ALOT of meandering...
I think I have an idea of what the writer is trying to accomplish but his book could have been simpler and more concise. I found the book difficult to apprehend for people frustrated in life and unsure of what to do next. I'd like to give this warning...if you aren't inclined towards religion you will have problems with this book because the author uses God as an affirmative defense for the outcome of every decision the reader has to make. I believe in God but I also believe in free will and that ... Read More
- speak to us in our shared language, pleaseI couldn't make it very far in this book because its grammar is so bad. The author explains in his preface that we should not complain about the grammar as he's devised a system of his own and it works for him, which I guess means that he is writing only for himself. Meanwhile, the rest of us who know only the shared idiom are left out in the cold.
- Some of the best career advice you will get...No point in going into too much detail.
Simply - This book will put you in the correct frame of mind to look for a job or to change career. It will not teach you how to write a resume or cover letter, but it will give you the mindset and skills to do it properly.
Well written and easy to read, it makes you take a good look at yourself before going out to dedicate yourself to a vocation that will take up 50% of your adult life.
Buy it if you are looking for ... Read More
- Why didn't they tell us this before?I think this book is awesome.The guidance, advice, and just general content is well worth the read.And it's an easy read. It's well organized into short, precise, and upbeat sections.The advice makes sense and I'm puzzled why none of my guidance, academic, or career counselors ever provided such helpful, real, and relevant information.It is exactly what I was looking for.I love all the website recommendations.
- Great, quick, clean....This book is awesome... I have to put it down every few pages because I like to put thought and intention into the exercises.... it is hopeful, knowledgeable and encouraging...
- ALOT of meandering...I think I have an idea of what the writer is trying to accomplish but his book could have been simpler and more concise. I found the book difficult to apprehend for people frustrated in life and unsure of what to do next. I'd like to give this warning...if you aren't inclined towards religion you will have problems with this book because the author uses God as an affirmative defense for the outcome of every decision the reader has to make. I believe in God but I also believe in free will and that ... Read More
