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Author : Richard Nelson Bolles
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781580089319
A guide to discovering personal goals and interests explains how to apply that information toward obtaining satisfying employment
Author : Katharine Brooks, EdD
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781984857576
An indispensable guide for college students, adapted from the world’s most popular and bestselling career book, What Color Is Your Parachute? What Color Is Your Parachute? for College is the only guide you need for making the most of your college career from start to finish. Based on the bestselling job-hunting system in the world, created by Richard N. Bolles, it covers deciding on a major, designing a four-year plan with your interests and values in mind, creating impactful social media, developing a resume that stands out in a crowd, and making invaluable connections to the workplace. Filled with introspective activities designed to bring out your unique skills and knowledge for interviews, resumes, and cover letters, this book provides easy-to-follow templates, rubrics, and lists to help you create the best possible social media platform, including LinkedIn. You’ll discover how to leverage your skills and experiences throughout college to start your future—whether that means landing a meaningful internship (and making the most of it!), finding your first job, continuing on to graduate school, or taking a gap year. Whatever your future plans, What Color Is Your Parachute? for College will get you there.
Author : Richard N. Bolles,Katharine Brooks, EdD
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781984857880
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 2021. 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 completely updated edition features the latest resources, strategies, and perspectives on today’s job market, revealing surprising advice on what works—and what doesn’t—so you can focus your efforts on tactics that yield results. This practical manual has been fully revised for 2021 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 to network effectively, interviewing virtually with confidence, and negotiating the best salary possible. At its core is Richard N. Bolles’s famed Flower Exercise, a unique self-inventory that helps you design your career—and your life—around your key passions, transferable skills, traits, and more. With the unique and authoritative guidance of What Color Is Your Parachute?, job-hunters and career changers will have all the tools they need to discover—and land—their dream job.
Author : Richard Nelson Bolles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Applications for positions
ISBN : 0898153174
Author : Carol Christen,Richard Nelson Bolles
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : High school students
ISBN : 9781580081412
Presents advice for teenagers on landing a dream job.
Author : Richard Nelson Bolles,Katharine Brooks
Publisher : Penguin Random House
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781984857866
Explains how to identify personal goals and interests and reveals how to apply that information toward obtaining satisfying employment, with tips on interviews, salary-negotiation techniques, and career searching online.
Author : Richard N. Bolles
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781984861221
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.
Author : Richard Nelson Bolles
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781580082679
A guide to discovering personal goals and interests explains how to apply that information toward obtaining satisfying employment
Author : Richard N. Bolles
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781607746638
What Color Is Your Parachute? is the world’s most popular job-hunting guide, revised and updated annually, with more than ten million copies sold. This 2016 edition features the latest studies and perspectives on today’s job-market, including proven strategies for finding jobs even when everyone tells you there are none. Career expert Richard N. Bolles reveals surprising advice on what works—and what doesn’t—so you can focus your efforts on tactics that yield results. This helpful manual shares proven tips for writing impressive resumes and cover letters, as well as guidance for effective networking, confident interviewing, and the best salary negotiating possible. But it goes beyond that by helping you to zero in on your ideal job—and life—with its classic Flower Exercise. Whether you’re searching for your first job, were recently laid off, or are dreaming of a career change, What Color Is Your Parachute? will guide you toward fulfilling and prosperous work. From the Hardcover edition.
Author : Richard Nelson Bolles,John E. Nelson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Retirement
ISBN : 1580087116
For more than 35 years, What Color Is Your Parachute? Has guided millions of job-hunters to find satisfying careers. Now, Parachute for Retirement will help people plan for the next stage of life. Going way beyond financial planning, Richard N. Bolles and retirement expert John E. Nelson use all the latest research from economics, medicine and psychology to provide a complete essential guide for planning this important and inevitable stage of anyone's career. It aims to inspire readers to take charge of their retired life and get the most possible out of their retirement, emotionally, financially and physically.
Author : Mark Emery Bolles,Richard N. Bolles
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781607740339
Before you start your Internet job-hunt, there are some things that you must know, like: • Why are job sites like Monster and CareerBuilder so stunningly ineffective? • What can you do to make sure your resumes survive the elimination process? • How do you find the information that search engines like Google can’t? • How can you tell the difference between a genuinely helpful job board, and a website designed only to collect resumes? • When are hobby forums more helpful than business networking sites? • When is the Internet not helpful when job-hunting? • What is the fatal flaw of all social networking sites? The Guide to Job-Hunting Online, 6th Edition, not only answers these questions and many more, but shows you how to comprehensively and effectively use the Internet for all aspects of your job-hunt. This companion to What Color Is Your Parachute?, the best-selling job-hunting book in the world, has been completely rewritten for our changing times and includes hundreds of updated website recommendations and descriptions. The Guide to Job-Hunting Online shows you how to quickly find the data that will be most helpful to you, how to identify and research the places where you will most enjoy working, how to leverage the power of social networking sites, and how to use your Internet time most effectively, avoiding the common pitfalls and setting you up for success.
Author : Julie Jansen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780698409019
The quintessential guide to kick-starting your career, fully revised and updated for the ever-changing modern job market Despite a recovering economy, many Americans are still losing their jobs, while many who do have jobs are overworked, maxed out, and miserable. In this fully revised and updated edition of I Don’t Know What I Want, But I Know It’s Not This, career coach Julie Jansen shows how anyone—whether you’re unhappy with your job, or without one—can implement a real and satisfying transformation. Changing careers, conducting a job search, or starting a business is more complicated than ever before. Jansen has updated her classic guide to address the unique challenges of today’s job market, from the ever-more important world of social media to new ways of funding your own endeavors online. Filled with quizzes, personality assessments, and real-life examples, this guide helps you identify the type of work you’re best suited for and provides the know-how—and the inspiration—for transforming an uncertain time into an opportunity for meaningful change.
Author : Richard Nelson Bolles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Career changes
ISBN : 1580089305
Author : Richard Nelson Bolles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0898152283
Because of the willingness of Richard Bolles to constantly revise and update this phenomenally popular guide to job-hunting and career-changing, once more a book is produced that keeps pace with unique changes in society, and once more earns the name "trusted". Features a new cover design.
Author : Howard Figler,Richard N. Bolles
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781607743552
With more than sixty-five combined years of experience in the career development field, Howard Figler and Richard Nelson Bolles are the undisputed authorities when it comes to helping people find meaningful work. In this revised and updated second edition of their classic guide for career counselors, Figler and Bolles show aspiring counselors how to break into the business, and give experienced counselors ideas for improving effectiveness and recharging their practice. Outlining tools, problem-solving tips, and ethical values for today's career counselor, THE CAREER COUNSELOR'S HANDBOOK features new information about performing the Annual Career Checkup, choosing Essence over Ego, and using the Internet-while celebrating the fact that even career counselors need counsel once in a while.