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What Color Is Your Parachute 2006 - Richard Nelson Bolles

Description: ISBN 1580087272 / Genre: Finance / Business / Career / In the last five years, the United States has lost 2.6 million jobs — the most in ... more

What Color Is Your Parachute 2006 - Richard Nelson Bolles ... any five-year period since the Great Depression. In the 2006 edition of his legendary job-hunting book, What Color Is Your Parachute? Richard Nelson Bolles offers hope and presents an inspiring and detailed plan for finding your place in this uncertain job market. This book has been the best-selling job-hunting book in the world for more three decades, in good times and bad, and it continues to be a fixture on best-seller lists, from Amazon.com to Business Week. It has well over eight million copies in print and has been translated into 12 languages around the world. With an extended preface that addresses job loss, vacancies, and outsourcing and updated references on how to use the Internet in your job-hunt throughout, the 2006 Parachute addresses the top concerns of today ’s job-hunters. In the words of Fortune magazine: Parachute remains the gold standard of! career guides.

Newest Review: ... to employ you. Furthermore, he goes through different ways that someone may look for jobs and grades them from best to worst. ... more

... Surprisingly, using the internet to search for a job is the very worst way to go about it. According to Bolles this has only a 4-10% success rate (that is 4-10% of people job hunting on the internet will get a job this way). Unsurprisingly, doing a life changing job hunt is the best at 86%. I found these figures unconvincing, especially since he does not always mention where he gets that particular figure from. The fifth chapter turns things around and focuses on how the employer hunts for employees, in order to gi...more

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What Color Is Your Parachute 2006 - Richard Nelson Bolles: What colour is YOUR parachute? (1965 words)
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What Color Is Your Parachute is a job-hunting manual, but it is also a great deal more than that. This book does not simply give you tips on how to write a CV or to succeed in an interview, but it offers what the author likes to call a “life changing job hunt”. The book concentrates on the job hunter him-/herself and how through getting to know what you really desire in life you can find the perfect career. So far more than 8 million copies have been sold, the book appears in 12 languages and is in its 36th year of publishing. Richard Nelson (or Dick as he apparently likes to call himself) Bolles is a graduate of Harvard University in physics and a graduate of ... Read the complete review