What Color Is Your Parachute? 2022: Your Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career Success Paperback – December 14, 2021 by Richard N. Bolles

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Author: Bolles Richard N.

Color: Navy

Package Dimensions: 25x229x485

Number Of Pages: 352

Release Date: 14-12-2021

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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 isindisputably the most popular.”—Fast Company

In today’s challenging job market, as recent grads face a shifting economic landscape and seek work that pays and inspires, as workers are laid off mid-career, and as people search for an inspiring work-life change, the time-tested advice of
What Color Is Your Parachute? is needed more than ever.

This new edition has been fully revised for 2022 by Vanderbilt University Career Center director Katharine Brooks, EdD, with modern advice on the job-hunt strategies that are working today, such as building an online resume, making the most of social media tools, and acing virtual interviews. Building on the wisdom of original author Richard N. Bolles, this edition updates the famed Flower Exercise (which walks job seekers through the seven ways of thinking about themselves) and demystifies the entire job-search process, from writing resumes to interviewing and networking.

With the unique and authoritative guidance of
What Color Is Your Parachute?, job-hunters and career changers will have all the tools to discover—and land—their dream job.

Review

“
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 remains the go-to guide for everyone from midlife-crisis boomers looking to change their careers  to college students looking to start one.”
—
New York Post
“Ideally, everyone should read
What Color Is Your Parachute? in the tenth grade and again every year thereafter.”
—Fortune

About the Author

Richard N. Bolles led the career development field for more than forty years. A member of Mensa and the Society for Human Resource Management, he served as the keynote speaker at hundreds of conferences. Bolles was trained in chemical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned 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 City, and three honorary doctorates.

Katharine Brooks, is an award-winning, nationally certified counselor and board-certified coach. She is the author of
What Color is Your Parachute? for College and
You Majored in What?: Designing Your Path from College to Career and writes a blog, “Career Transitions,” for Psychology Today.

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Introduction to the 2022 Edition

Why are you reading this book?

Maybe someone recommended it to you. Lots of people do. While working on this latest edition, I lost count of the number of people who told me “my mother bought it for me” or “a friend used that book—and it worked!” Maybe you’re hoping to change your career, or you’re seeking your first job, or you’re returning to the workplace after some time away. Maybe recent changes in the economy have forced you to seek a new job—or even a new career field. Whatever your job or career challenge, the highly successful system in
What Color Is Your Parachute? is your solution. And this new edition has much to offer:

• Updated career advice and information
• Specific guidance on changing careers, no matter your age
• Techniques for winning the mind game of the job search
• Employer-based advice for all aspects of the job search
• Advice for dealing with challenges you fear are holding you back
• Suggestions on how to connect with advocacy groups and others who can support you
• Special tips for job seekers who are introverts
• Updated social media advice, especially for job-search powerhouse LinkedIn
• Helpful rubrics to quickly analyze and improve your resume, cover letter, and Li