What Color Is Your Parachute 2002?: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters & Career-Changers (What Color is Your Parachute?: A Practical Manual for Job-hunters and Career Changers) - Softcover

Bolles, Richard N.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1580083412 ISBN 13: 9781580083416

Publisher: Ten Speed Press, 2001

Synopsis

A handbook to finding a job or changing careers for the general reader. Discusses an alternative approach to standard methods of searching for employment, advice on how to determine which s to keep in mind in the job search, and other helpful hints for the job hopeful. Previous edition, c2001. Softcover.

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Review

For nearly 30 years, What Color Is Your Parachute? has been the guiding light for those in pursuit of satisfying and fulfilling employment. The 1999 edition has been completely revised and rewritten and is designed to work in conjunction with the book's Web site. At the heart of Bolles's formula for finding the right job are two questions: What do you want to do? Where do you want to do it?

Answer those and you're well on your way to finding the job you really want. Packed with time-tested advice, What Color Is Your Parachute? works as a good companion for those just starting out in the "real world" as well as for those who are thinking seriously about a career change. --Harry C. Edwards, Amazon.com

From the Author

Parachute went from 560 pages to just 235 in this edition.
For much of 1998, The 1998 What Color Is Your Parachute? was the second best-selling business paperback in America. But, at 560 pages, I had a feeling people weren't reading it, except in bits and pieces. Its size was just too intimidating. So, for the 1999 edition (now out) I rewrote the entire book, summarizing where I could, writing shorter sentences where I could, and as a result, reduced it to just 235 pages in the main body of the book. Much more manageable. Here's a typical reaction from a reader: "For the past 20 years, I have purchased or been given a copy of your annual edition/rewrite. In my opinion, the 1999 edition is the best, easiest to read, briskly written, humorous, personal, practical, jam-packed with hints and helps, and 235 pages, excluding the appendices. You have returned the book to the reader and now for the first time in many years, I will strongly encourage people who buy this book to read the entire thing. I am in awe of the masterpiece you have produced." (Jim Kell, Texas)

Edition details

• Publisher: Ten Speed Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1580083412
• ISBN 13: 9781580083416
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432