RICHARD NELSON BOLLES

The world's most popular job-search book is updated for 2015 to tailor its long-trusted guidance with up-to-the-minute information and advice for today's job-hunters and career-changers.What Color Is Your Parachute? is the worlds most popular job-hunting guide with more than ten million copies sold. Now, no matter what your circumstances, every job-hunter can find help with up-to-the-minute information on what has changed about the job-market, plus strategies for finding jobs even when everyone tells you there are none. And if you are a returning vet, there is a new twenty-page appendix this year, specifically addressing your unique needs. 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-inventorycalled The Flower Exercisebecause the best answer to What shall I do? flows from knowing Who you are.

folks keep their information up to date for 2008 with helpful information on searching for jobs online, while remaining true to their core idea that you need to find out what you (really) want to do before looking for a job or changing careers. Along with update...

The #1 best-selling career book of all time, revised and updated to keep pace with today's ever-changing job market. Still the best-selling job-hunting book in the world, WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? is the most complete guide for first-time job seekers as well as second and encore careers changers. For more than three decades, it remains 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 it has been translated into 20 languages. The 2009 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." Visit the What Color Is Your Parachute? JOB-HUNTER'S RESOURCE CENTER for video, useful exercises, job-search advice, and more... Reviews"The newest edition has been rewritten, updated and expanded to offer tools, support and hope to help job-seekers even in the worst of economic times."--McClatchy-Tribune News Service "Parachute remains the most complete career guide around . . .

In today's challenging job-market, the time-tested advice of What Color Is Your Parachute? is needed more than ever. Recent grads facing a tough economic landscape, workers laid off mid-career, and people searching for an inspiring work-life change all look to career guru Richard N. Bolles for support, encouragement, and advice on which job-hunt strategies work--and which don't. This revised and updated edition combines classic elements like the famed Flower Exercise with updated tips on social media and search tactics. Bolles demystifies the entire job-search process, from resumes to interviewing to networking, expertly guiding job-hunters toward their dream job.

The bestselling job hunting book in the world is reissued for 2005's uncertain job market, laying out a simple, step-by-step plan for finding meaningful work and mission despite the economy's jobless recovery. This is not your normal "Parachute"--it faces squarely the "workquake" that is shaking up the job market around the world and gives steady hope. Two color. (Careers/Job Opportunities)

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