What Color Is Your Parachute? 2015: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (710 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1607745550 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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"√ You Would be Nuts to Not Read this Book" according to Bassocantor. This book is widely recognized each year as the top guide to finding a job. Various editions of this book have sold MILLIONS. It is easy to see why. The author has extensive experience in the field, and backs up his ideas with impressive evidence. The research the author has done is impressive. WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? 2015 is not just a book of some off-the-top-of-my head notions; these are re. Not great for those in the STEM fields JGtz Bought it as it was highly recommended for job hunters to use in my search for a new job. I'd say it's somewhat useful to help you think outside the box in terms of how to look for work and conveys the importance of going outside of sites such as indeed, monster, etc however in terms of help for resume prep, salary negotiation and interviews tips it is lacking in my opinion.About 1/3 of the book is . Buy It! I purchased What Color Is Your Parachute in 1973. At the time I was a college student, unsure of what to do with my life. I am now retiring from Career Counseling and I have read about every book on Careers, Resumes, Job Finding, etc., published in the last 30 years.I always gravitate back to the information in What Color is Your Parachute and about every 3-5 years purchase the latest edition. The 2
It’s so darn useful because it is about more than just ‘finding a job.’” —Kevin Kelly, Cool Tools: A Catalog of Possibilities “Ideally, everyone should read What Color Is Your Parachute? in the tenth grade and again every year thereafter.” —Fortune “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 is still arguably the best. And it is indisputably the most popular.&
RICHARD N. BOLLES has led the career development field for more than forty years. A member of Mensa and the Society for Human Resource Management, he has been the keynote speaker at hundreds of conferences. Bolles was trained in chemical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and holds 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 Ci
This 2015 edition includes up-to-date research and tips about writing impressive resumes and cover letters, doing effective networking and confident interviewing, and negotiating the best salary possible. But it goes beyond that, in helping you to better know who you are, with its classic self-inventory—called “The Flower Exercise”—because the best answer to What shall I do? flows from knowing Who you are.. And if you are a returning vet, there is a