



What Color Is Your Parachute?: Your Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career Success
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The groundbreaking, indispensable guide to rewarding work and a fulfilling life—more than ten million copies sold!
For more than fifty years, What Color Is Your Parachute? has transformed the way people think about job hunting. Whether searching for that first position, recovering from a layoff, or dreaming of a career change, What Color Is Your Parachute? has shown millions of readers how to network effectively, compose impressive resumes and cover letters, interview with confidence, and negotiate the best possible salary—while discovering how to make their livelihood part of authentic living.
More than a job-hunting book, Richard N. Bolles’s timeless wisdom and famed self-assessment exercise clarifies seven key dimensions, so you can uncover your greatest passions, most valued traits, and transferable skills to design a life that enables you to flourish.
With the job market in constant flux, people everywhere have found that understanding who they are—what they care about, where and how they do their best work, and the most effective way to express their abilities—is the best compass to navigating an ever-changing and challenging professional landscape. It is also how their work can become part of a life filled with passion and purpose.
Using the trailblazing advice and enduring guidance of What Color Is Your Parachute?, job-hunters and career changers will have the tools to discover—and land—the work, and life, most meaningful to them.
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Publisher : Ten Speed Press
Publication date : December 27, 2022
Edition : Revised
Language : English
Print length : 352 pages
ISBN-10 : 1984861204
ISBN-13 : 978-1984861207
Item Weight : 1.01 pounds
Dimensions : 6 x 1 x 9 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #7,262 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #3 in Job Hunting (Books) #6 in Job Hunting & Career Guides #158 in Success Self-Help
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Customers find this career guidance book to be an invaluable resource, with one noting it helped them greatly in their twenties. The book receives positive feedback for its readability, thought-provoking content, and regular updates, with one customer highlighting its practical life-giving wisdom. They appreciate the interviewing tips and consider it worth the investment of time. The book’s age receives mixed reactions from customers.
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