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What Color Is Your Parachute? 2007: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career Changes by Richard Nelson Bolles

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Job hunting isn't what it used to be. In this tight employment market, strategies and materials can make the difference between a promising new career and another month of pounding the pavement. This updated edition of Richard Bolles's What Color Is Your Parachute? registers the changes in the job market by mixing fresh ideas with its time-tested interview and resume techniques. Think of it as an investment.

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Bolles (How To Find Your Mission in Life) has yet again updated his 1970 classic, still the world's best-selling book for career and job-hunting guidance. His changes for this edition include his analysis of current job market trends and statistics. Drawing on recent legislation and legal interpretations, he revises information on conditions for the handicapped, job discrimination, healthcare costs, pensions, and new kinds of benefit plans. He also assesses the pros and cons of using the Internet to search for a job and offers up new web site resources and contacts. Again, Bolles combines his highly practical advice about job hunting (e.g., the five best and worst ways to hunt for a job, six secrets to negotiating a salary) with his philosophical approach to identifying what you are good at and fitting those parameters into your career plan. Libraries holding editions of Parachute that are three to five years old should replace them with this up-to-date edition. Essential for all libraries. Dale Farris, Groves, TX Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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Customer Rating for this product is 5 out of 5 THE book for under employed, unemployed and employed
doug@dougcaldwell.net, a reviewer., 01/26/2007

When you buy a job transition book, this is the first and probably only one you will need. I have used this book several times starting since 1979. Bolles updates the material every year, but holds constant in his message to job seekers. What do you want to BE when you grow up? It is a two-part question with emphasis on what you will BE, not what you will be doing. Discovering your passion and what you will be is the essence of the book. There are time-tested applications and insightful exercises to help your job search journey. The author provides the five questions that matter for all job seekers and the five questions that matter to the person-who-has-the-power-to-hire-you. And the author offers few pages on using the Internet compared to going out and meeting in person-who-has-the-power-to-hire-you or who knows that person.