What color is your parachute? : your guide to a lifetime of meaningful work and career success / Richard N. Bolles.
"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." -- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781984861207
- ISBN: 1984861204
- Physical Description: 343 pages : illustrations, charts ; 23 cm
- Edition: Revised edition.
- Publisher: California : Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-335) and index.( pages 337-343). |
Formatted Contents Note: | Welcome to the ever-changing world of the job search -- A job search is hard work: Here are ten ways to triumph -- How to deal with any challenges you have in the job search -- How to choose a career, change a career, or find a job -- Introduction to the flower exercise -- The flower exercise: A comprehensive self-inventory -- You get to choose where you work -- Your resume is already online -- Fifteen tips about your job interview -- The five secrets of salary negotiation -- How to start your own business -- The blue pages: Finding your mission in life. |
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Subject: | Applications for positions. Success in business. Vocational guidance. Employment interviewing. Career changes. Job hunting. |
Genre: | Instructional and educational works. Self-help publications. |
Available copies
- 6 of 7 copies available at Missouri Evergreen.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Stone County. (Show)
Holds
- 0 current holds with 7 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Stone County-Galena | 331.128 BOL (Text) | 31358000558796 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Camden County Library District - Camdenton | 650.14 Bolles (Text) | 31320003902322 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Jefferson County Library-Northwest | 331.128 BOLLES (Text) | 30051100192522 | Non-Fiction | Available | - |
Jefferson County Library-Windsor | 331.128 BOLLES (Text) | 30065100192530 | Non-Fiction | Available | - |
Lebanon-Laclede County Library | 650.14 Bolles (Text) | 380384794+ | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
North Kansas City Public Library | 650.14 BOLLES 2023 (Text) | 0001012501918 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
St. Joseph - Carnegie Library | 650.14 BOL 2022 (Text) | 32002005785801 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked out | 05/06/2024 |
Summary:
"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." --