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What Color Is Your Parachute? 2012: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers
 
 

What Color Is Your Parachute? 2012: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers [Kindle Edition]

Richard N. Bolles
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The 40th Edition. This is not your father’s Parachute; and not your mother’s, either. They’d be astounded at the changes. This book keeps building--in insight, helpfulness, relevance, and urgency--through new invention and information each year. And this year it’s the critical resource to help Americans (and others) get back to work.
 
For forty years now job-hunters and career-changers have been turning to this, the world’s most popular job-hunting book, confident that each new annual edition will give them the most up-to-date information about the job-market and how to find meaningful work--even in the midst of challenging economic times such as these.
 
This year’s edition of What Color Is Your Parachute? has been vastly rewritten, because job-hunting has increasingly become a survival skill. Career expert Richard N. Bolles describes the five strategies most needed to survive, and explains how to incorporate social media tools such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter into your job-search.
 
The new ideas are wrapped around the familiar core message of Parachute: WHAT, WHERE, and HOW, with an emphasis on finding your passion and identifying your best transferable skills. With fresh insights into resumes, networking, interviewing, salary negotiation, and how to start your own business, this book will give you the tools, exercises, and motivation you need to find hope, land a job, and fulfill your purpose in life. In the words of Fortune magazine:
 
Parachute remains the gold standard of career guides.”

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 4794 KB
  • Print Length: 279 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1607740109
  • Publisher: Ten Speed Press; 1 edition (16 Aug 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B004J4WM7C
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #11,114 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Too American 26 Feb 2012
Format:Kindle Edition
Without doubt there are some very good features to this book. And I can see how radical it must have been when it was first published forty years ago. If you are considering a complete career change then it still has interesting things to say and some useful tools, the pink pages are a new feature that my old edition didn't have; and of course it has a pretty cool and memorable title.

The title though gives away the biggest shortcoming of this book. What "Color" is your parachute? As Shaw said "England and America, two countries separated by a common language"; but it's not just the language that has subtle but important differences. The way our employment markets work are markedly different too. Unfortunately I feel that these differences are not covered by this book. Much of the "getting a job" advice and nearly all of the references are wasted on a UK audience. For instance there are nearly as many recommended Job Councillors for Switzerland as there is for the UK, and the two countries combines do not match New York state.

So if you are new to this book and are looking to change careers, you will find much in this that will be useful. If you have a copy of this already, particularly if you are UK based, then there are more relevant books out there. May I recommend: Job Hunting 3.0: Secrets and skills to sell yourself effectively in the modern age a much more useful book for finding a job in the UK.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By guv999
Format:Kindle Edition
I have been out of work since October and decided to try this book having heard much about it down the years.
I received some excellent Outplacement support from my employer prior to redundancy and as such the book did not cover much new ground for me.
This book would best for someone with little knowledge of job hunting who is either planning a career move whilst in employment or has received no support whilst losing their job.
Also a lot of the links to sites are American which is a little irritating.
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Excelent 28 April 2012
By maica
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I had no problem.
Everything went fine with my order and the book is helping me a lot in looking for work, and re-inventing myself in these difficult times.
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