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What Color Is Your Parachute?: A Practical Manual for Job-hunters and Career-changers (What Color Is Your Parachute?) (Hardcover)

by Richard Nelson Bolles (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 456 pages
  • Publisher: Ten Speed Press (1 Sep 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1580089313
  • ISBN-13: 978-1580089319
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.5 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 607,815 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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'.


About the Author

Richard Nelson Bolles has been a leader in the career development field for more than 35 years. He has been the keynote speaker at hundreds of conferences and has spoken to thousands of people all over the world. He was trained in chemical engineering (MIT) and holds a BA degree cum laude in physics (Harvard University) and a master's in sacred theology (General Theological Seminary, Episcopal, in New York City).

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5.0 out of 5 stars looking for a job or career change - you MUST read this, 12 April 2009
By Mr. G. Bridgeman-clarke "Graham Bridgeman-Clarke" (Rayleigh UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: What Color Is Your Parachute?: A Practical Manual for Job-hunters and Career-changers (What Color Is Your Parachute?) (Paperback)
I came across this book about 15 years ago by chance. I had just had a job interview which went well, so I thought, and I found this book on sale at Waterstones. I didn't get the job but I did buy the book and I read it from cover to cover and did all the exercises. At the end of the book after completing the exercises I had a real idea of the area I should be looking for a job in. At that time it was working in property for a University. By coincidence (or was it fate) that following weekend my local University advertised a job for Head of Property. I got it and the rest is history.

Its funny that you tend to believe that you have to follow jobs which you an society indicate are right. This book helps you to think freely, chuck out the bull, and find the job thats right for you.

Over the past 10 years I have bought the book for 4 unemployed friends and all have benefitted.

What can you lose by buying the book? Nothing but the cover price in my view.
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5.0 out of 5 stars First aid for victims of the recession., 30 April 2009
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This book is designed to restore your self-confidence and help you to understand what you are good at. It includes a detailed analytical procedure which helps you to decide what you want to do with your life, and how you should go about achieving your objective. The style is a bit American and over-emphatic at times, but it is packed with priceless nuggets of information such as "When negotiating salary, whoever mentions an actual figure first generally loses."
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2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointment, 20 Sep 2009
This review is from: What Color Is Your Parachute?: A Practical Manual for Job-hunters and Career-changers (What Color Is Your Parachute?) (Paperback)
I bought this book as it was recommended but it was a real disappointment.

Clearly aimed at the US market (although this wasn't made clear on the pre-sales material) much of it was therefore not appropriate for the UK market. In addition, whilst it's logic was pretty sound, as a practical guide it was not very good atall. There are, in my opinion, far better books on the market that cover similar ground but in a much more practical fashion.

The only good news was that as usual the Amazon delivery service was spot on so I received the book in a timely enough fashion to correct my purchase mistake with a better alternative!
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