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What Color Is Your Parachute? 2020: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers
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About What Color Is Your Parachute? 2020: A Practical
Product 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. Review “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 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. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chapter 1 It’s a Whole New World for Job-Hunters If you are trying to understand yourself better, and what you have to offer to the world, this book is for you. If you are out of work, and want some practical help, this book is for you. If you are trying to understand how the world, and particularly the world of work, really works these days, this book is for you. If you’ve been out of work a long time, and think you’re now permanently unemployable, this book is for you. If you’re on the edge of poverty these days, this book is for you. If you’ve got some disability, this book is for you. If you’re trying to figure out a new career or your first career, this book is for you. If you’re going to college and you can’t figure out what to major in, this book is for you. If you are trying to figure out what you want to do next, with your life, this book is for you. If you’re just graduating from college and have to live with your parents ’cause you can’t find any work, this book is for you. If you’re trying to figure out how to start your own business, this book is for you. If you’re a returning vet, this book is for you. If you’re facing retirement, and want to know what to do to support yourself, this book is for you. A Two-Minute Crash Course on How Much Has Changed in the World of Work Charles Dickens put it well: For some people, a lot of people, this is the best of times. But for others of us, this is the worst of times. The rules of the game h
