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What Color Is Your Parachute? 2021: Your Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career Success
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Product Description With timeless advice, up-to-the-minute insights, and more than ten million copies sold over fifty years, the world’s most popular and best-selling career guide is fully revised and expanded for 2021. In today’s challenging job-market, as recent grads face a shifting economic landscape and seek work that pays and inspires, as workers are laid off mid-career, and as people search for an inspiring work-life change, the time-tested advice of What Color Is Your Parachute? is needed more than ever. This completely updated edition features the latest resources, strategies, 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. This practical manual has been fully revised for 2021 by Vanderbilt University Career Center Director Katharine Brooks, EdD, with modern advice on the job hunt strategies that are working today, such as building an online resume, making the most of social media tools to network effectively, interviewing virtually with confidence, and negotiating the best salary possible. 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. With the unique and authoritative guidance of What Color Is Your Parachute?, job-hunters and career changers will have all the tools they need to discover—and land—their dream job. About the Author Richard N. Bolles led the job-search 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. Katharine Brooks, EdD, is an award-winning career counselor and coach who is currently the Evans Family Executive Director of the Career Center for Vanderbilt University. She is a licensed professional counselor, nationally certified counselor, and board-certified coach. Previously, she had been the executive director of the Office of Personal and Career Development at Wake Forest University and director of career services for the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas in Austin. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Introduction to the 2021 Edition Why are you reading this book? Maybe someone recommended it to you. Lots of people do that. While working on this latest edition, I lost count of the number of people who told me “my mother bought it for me” or “a friend used that book—and it worked!” Maybe you’re hoping to change your career, or you’re seeking your first job, or you’re returning to the workplace after some time away. Maybe recent changes in the economy have forced you to seek a new job—or even a new career field. Whatever your job or career challenge, the highly successful system in What Color Is Your Parachute? is your solution. And this new edition has much to offer: • Updated career advice and information • Specific guidance on changing careers, no matter your age • Techniques for winning the mind game of the job search • Employer-based advice for all aspects of the job search • Advice for dealing with challenges you fear are holding you back • Suggestions on how to connect with advocacy groups and others who can support you • Special tips for job seekers who are introverts • Updated social media advice, especially for job-search powerhouse LinkedIn • Helpful rubrics to quickly analyze and improve your resume, cover letter, and LinkedIn profile • Tips for creating powerful interview stories • Internet-based job-search techniques and resources that actually work • Salary and benefits negotiation guidance • And, of course, the highly popular, successful, and classic Flower Exercise, which has been revised and updated When What Color Is Your Parachute? was first published in 1970, it revolutionized the concept of job hunting. Unlike traditional guides to
