What color is your parachute? : job hunter's workbook : a companion to the world's most popular and bestselling career handbook / Richard N. Bolles, with Katharine Brooks.

By:

Bolles, Richard Nelson

Contributor(s):

Brooks, Katharine

Material type: Text

9781984858269

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	Clonmel Library Main Collection	650.14 BOL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		39002100613125

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

An interactive companion to the world's most popular job-search book, updated for 2021, that helps you translate your personal interests into marketable job skills.

This fill-in workbook for the career classic What Color Is Your Parachute? is a helpful tool for recent grads, workers laid off mid-career, and anyone searching for an inspiring work-life change. Featuring

. New information that addresses the job-market in the pandemic era
. The Flower Exercise that gets everything about your skills and preferences in one place
. The Party Exercise to help you discover who you work best with
. The Transferable Skills Grid that helps you discover your most valuable skills

and more of Richard N. Bolles's helpful charts and activities, this workbook allows job-hunters to roll up their sleeves and discover how their unique interests, passions, and dreams will give them, once completed, a picture of their dream job.

Excerpt provided by Syndetics

Introduction The Parachute Approach demands that you do an inventory of who you are and what you love to do, before you set out on your search for (meaningful) work. Being out of work, or thinking about a new job or career, should speak to your heart. It should say something like this: Use this opportunity. Make this not only a hunt for a job, but a hunt for a life. A deeper life, a victorious life, a life you're prouder of. The world currently is filled with workers whose weeklong cry is, "When is the weekend going to be here?" And, then, "Thank God it's Friday!" Their work puts bread on the table but . . . they are bored out of their minds. They've never taken the time to think out what they uniquely can do, and what they uniquely have to offer to the world. The world doesn't need any more bored workers. Dream a little. Dream a lot. Excerpted from What Color Is Your Parachute? Job-Hunter's Workbook, Sixth Edition: A Companion to the World's Most Popular and Bestselling Career Handbook by Richard N. Bolles, Katharine Brooks All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Richard Nelson Bolles was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on March 19, 1927. During World War II, he served in the Navy. He studied chemical engineering for two years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, then transferred to Harvard University, where he received a bachelor's degree in physics. After graduation, he decided to become an Episcopal minister. He received a master's degree in New Testament studies from General Theological Seminary in New York and was ordained in 1953.

He had been a clergyman for 18 years when a combination of budget problems and philosophical differences with superiors led to the elimination of his job and his dismissal in 1968 as a pastor at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. After six months of searching, he got a job with United Ministries in Higher Education, an interdenominational church organization that recruited and supported college chaplains across the country. However, when the college chaplains were increasingly being laid off, he decided to help the chaplains find new careers. He was an ordained Episcopal minister until 2004, when he left the ministry.

In 1970, he self-published What Color Is Your Parachute?: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers as a photocopied how-to booklet for unemployed ministers. In 1972, he recast it to appeal to a wider audience and found an independent publisher willing to print small batches so that it could be frequently updated. His other books included How to Find Your Mission in Life and The Three Boxes of Life and How to Get Out of Them. He died on March 31, 2017 at the age of 90.

(Bowker Author Biography)