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What Color Is Your Parachute? 2022: Your Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career Success Audio CD – Unabridged, December 14, 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 is indisputably 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 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.

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Richard N. Bolles led the job-search 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.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Brilliance Audio; Unabridged edition (December 14, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1511311649
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1511311649
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.57 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.2 x 0.5 x 6.7 inches

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Richard Nelson Bolles is the author of What Color Is Your Parachute? A Practical Guide For Job-Hunters and Career Changers, the most popular job-hunting book in the world, which has sold more than 10,000,000 copies since its first publication. Parachute is dramatically updated, reshaped and rewritten every year, and has been translated into 20 languages and published in 26 countries.

What Color Is Your Parachute? was chosen as one of the all-time 100 best nonfiction books by Time magazine, and was selected as one of 25 books that have shaped people's lives (throughout history) by the Library of Congress' Center for the Book.

A member of Mensa and the Society for Human Resource Management, Bolles has been the keynote speaker at hundreds of conferences. He holds a bachelor’s degree cum laude in physics from Harvard University, a master’s degree from General Theological (Episcopal) Seminary in New York City, and three honorary doctorates.

He is credited with founding the modern career counseling field, and is often described as the field's foremost authority. Bolles is a recipient of the National Samaritan Award, whose previous honorees include Karl Menninger, Betty Ford, and Peter Drucker. He is also one of LinkedIn's 300 "Influencers" or "thought leaders," and writes regularly for the site as well as a number of others. In 2014, he was named one of the "Wealth Wizards" in the U.S. by Forbes Magazine—along with Warren Buffett and 18 others.

Dick has three grown children, Stephen, Sharon, and Gary, and lives with his wife, Marci, in the San Francisco East Bay Area.

Learn more at parachutebook.com.

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Rachelle D Huitink

Must Read for anyone contemplating their professional future

Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2022

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Few books have ever provided me with the kind of clarity this book has as to what direction I need to pursue a professional future. This should be a must read for anyone contemplating how they are wired and how their wiring fits with a "real" job. I wish I had read this in the later part of my collegiate journey (the first time). Read it. Do the exercises.

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RPL

The standard for job changers and finders

Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2022

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I used one of the first editions of the book version of this to choose and prepare for a lifetime career in the tech industry. That was after a year of ghetto school teaching convinced me not to use two degrees and a teaching credential. The guidance in this book helped me research what I did and did not want to do, do informational interviews and use other methods to choose a career, and then used informational interviews to choose a school and degree which IBM, Control Data, and other companies considered acceptable for hiring. I have recommended this book to over 100 people over the years.

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Perfect for career changes post-degree graduation

Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2022

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Recently graduated with a master's degree and faced with writing a CV and other tasks. I'm not new to these exercises, competing them for the career change really helped me hone in on what to write for the teaching philosophy, cover letter, and other surprise requests that came along with applying for a new job field.

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Excellent service as described!

Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2022

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Quick delivery and the book in excellent shape as described.

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I love "Parachute"!

Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2022

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I've been looking for the most recent edition of this book.

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Michael Evan

Vital for the job hunt in today’s environment.

Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2022

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Excellent resource for life’s work search.

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charliegg

One of more useful books about career search

Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2022

This is one of the more useful books about career search/career change. The exercises are insightful. I would say it needs a better editor, or maybe suffers from being relaunched every year. In parts, it seemed that some information was missing, repetitive or confusing. Maybe parts had been rewritten and the writer/editor failed to notice that it was now incomplete or confusing. Also, some of the exercises were downright convoluted.

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Serious technical issues with the Kindle version

Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2022

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The content of this book was fine, but there were some serious technical issues with the Kindle version.

First of all, there were at least four or five occasions when I got an error message stating that I would have to go back to the Amazon website and download the book again. It was not possible to use the book at all without doing so. Amazon recommended reducing the font size, which I did, but the problem persisted.

Secondly, when I used the "go to" feature and went to page 148, then when I would try to go to the next page, it would take me back to page 124 instead. I tried this countless times on numerous occasions and it always happened. So, then I decided to use the "go to" feature to get to page 149. But whenever I tried to do that, it took me directly to the end of the book. This always happened on many attempts. The only way to access page 149 was to go to the beginning of the chapter and flip through every single page. Chapter 6 starts on page 110, so that was 39 pages I had to flip through one at a time.

Thirdly, some pages, like the example of how someone else did the flower exercise, were just too small to read on the Kindle version, and I am not aware of any way to make it larger.

I have never experienced these first two issues with any other ebook ever, and I read 66 books in 2021, most of which were ebooks. On Amazon, this book is specifically listed as "Great on Kindle", so I expected better. I contacted Penguin Random House weeks ago, but no one has gotten back to me.

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T Woolf.

To broad and ultimately unhelpful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 21, 2021

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This book claims to be all things to everyone (unemployed, graduate , 30+ years) and ultimately serves none well. Having devoted a significant amount of time reading and doing the exercises it feels like a management consultant selling your thoughts back to you - you will learn very little. 2 hour job search is a significantly better , briefer and actually enjoyable read - and doesn’t claim to tell you what you should do - which this book does not.
Save the money and time , go elsewhere.

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A complete game-changer

Reviewed in Canada on May 2, 2022

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I bought this book 30 years ago, followed the instructions in it and am still enjoying the fulfilling career it led me to. And I continue to purchase this book for others. I just bought it for my grown children and hope they both receive huge benefits from it. Really, this is one of the most meaningful and important books I have ever read. Highly recommend.

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Samuel

Excellent book for this Great Resignation times

Reviewed in Singapore on March 4, 2022

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Thoroughly enjoyable and useful book to find your true north once again! Highly recommended read!

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