What Color Is Your Parachute? 2022

Author: Richard N. Bolles
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
ISBN: 1984860364
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book 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 2022. “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 the world’s most popular job-hunting guide. 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. 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.

What Color is Your Parachute? 2021

Author: Richard Nelson Bolles
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 198485786X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
Explains how to identify personal goals and interests and reveals how to apply that information toward obtaining satisfying employment, with tips on interviews, salary-negotiation techniques, and career searching online.

What Color Is Your Parachute?

Author: Richard Nelson Bolles
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN: 158008009X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 66

Book Description
"The new edition of this companion workbook to What Color Is Your Parachute? helps job-hunters create a picture of their ideal job or next career"--Provided by publisher.

What Color is Your Parachute?

Author: Richard Nelson Bolles
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780898150018
Category : Applications for positions
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description

What Color is Your Parachute? for Teens

Author: Carol Christen
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN: 158008141X
Category : High school students
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
Presents advice for teenagers on landing a dream job.

What Color Is Your Parachute? for College

Author: Katharine Brooks, EdD
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
ISBN: 1984857576
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
An indispensable guide for college students, adapted from the world’s most popular and bestselling career book, What Color Is Your Parachute? What Color Is Your Parachute? for College is the only guide you need for making the most of your college career from start to finish. Based on the bestselling job-hunting system in the world, created by Richard N. Bolles, it covers deciding on a major, designing a four-year plan with your interests and values in mind, creating impactful social media, developing a resume that stands out in a crowd, and making invaluable connections to the workplace. Filled with introspective activities designed to bring out your unique skills and knowledge for interviews, resumes, and cover letters, this book provides easy-to-follow templates, rubrics, and lists to help you create the best possible social media platform, including LinkedIn. You’ll discover how to leverage your skills and experiences throughout college to start your future—whether that means landing a meaningful internship (and making the most of it!), finding your first job, continuing on to graduate school, or taking a gap year. Whatever your future plans, What Color Is Your Parachute? for College will get you there.

What Color Is Your Parachute? Guide to Rethinking Resumes

Author: Richard N. Bolles
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
ISBN: 1607746573
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 114

Book Description
The first resume book from the What Color Is Your Parachute? career guru Richard Bolles. Resumes get an average of eight seconds of attention before going in the trash—or getting on the shortlist. That’s just one of the findings reported here, as legendary career expert Richard N. Bolles presents new research about resumes in a guide that summarizes everything job-hunters and career-changers need to know about this essential tool. This timely resource features the latest research on important resume topics such as key words, soft skills, scanning software, social media, and online posting. Bolles argues that on the basis of what we now know, we need to rethink what a resume is—and how it should be written. He details the words that must be avoided, and the words that must be used, on a resume that wins you interviews. This slim volume distills a huge amount of information down to its very essence. Armed with tips and shortcuts based on the author’s decades of experience, you can craft a resume and cover letter that will stand out to your dream employers—and increase your chances of getting interviews and landing jobs.

What Color Is Your Parachute? for Teens, Fourth Edition

Author: Carol Christen
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
ISBN: 1984858637
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
Today’s adolescents face unprecedented challenges. As a teenager, how do you pick a great-for-you job or college major that will finance your future? You need a plan! The proven exercises in What Color Is Your Parachute? for Teens help uncover what matters most to you, what you love to do, the kinds of people you work best with, and how to use the skills and interests you already have—on social media and elsewhere—to choose a major or career path that is uniquely suited to your passions, strengths, and goals. With the most up-to-date information on how the pandemic and other challenges have altered higher education and the job market, this new edition features time-tested techniques such as information interviewing (with sample outreach and thank-you notes), the latest job discovery tactics (both online and in-person), how to connect to and land great internships, and more. By implementing a plan now, you can make the most of high school and create a life you’ll enjoy post-graduation!

The 2009 What Color is Your Parachute?

Author: Richard Nelson Bolles
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN: 1580089313
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 436

Book Description
A guide to discovering personal goals and interests explains how to apply that information toward obtaining satisfying employment

How to Find Your Mission in Life

Author: Richard N. Bolles
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
ISBN: 1607743566
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 97

Book Description
Now in Paperback!In this intimate treasury of wit and wisdom, Richard Bolles, author of the job-hunting bible: WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE?, explores the spiritual aspects of finding one’s place in the work world. For anyone who has ever wondered how to make the most of their unique natural gifts, or how to find a vocation that is both socially responsible and personally fulfilling, this enlightening and empowering little volume provides immeasurable guidance. Originally appearing as an appendix in PARACHUTE, this book has led countless people through life’s most difficult passages and is sure to inspire anyone who is either new to the job market or reconsidering their place in it. A guide to exploring the spiritual aspects of finding one’s mission in the workplace. Previous editions have sold 85,000 copies.