What color is your parachute? : a practical manual for job-hunters and career-changers / Richard N. Bolles.

By:

Bolles, Richard Nelson [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Berkeley : Ten Speed Press, 2016Edition: 2017 editionDescription: 354 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cmContent type:

text
still image

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780399578205 (pbk.) :

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

650.14 23

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	Clonmel Library Main Collection	650.14 BOL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		39002100635045

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The world's most popular job-search book is updated for 2017, tailoring its long-trusted guidance with up-to-the-minute information and advice for today's job-hunters and career-changers.

In today's challenging job-market, the time-tested advice of What Color Is Your Parachute? is needed more than ever. Recent grads facing a tough economic landscape, workers laid off mid-career, and people searching for an inspiring work-life change all look to career guru Richard N. Bolles for support, encouragement, and advice on which job-hunt strategies work--and which don't. This revised and updated edition combines classic elements like the famed Flower Exercise with updated tips on social media and search tactics. Bolles demystifies the entire job-search process, from resumes to interviewing to networking, expertly guiding job-hunters toward their dream job.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Chapter 1 It's a Whole New World for Job-Hunters (p. 1)
Chapter 2 Google Is Your New Resume (p. 21)
Chapter 3 There Are Over Ten Million Vacancies Available Each Month (p. 45)
Chapter 4 Sixteen Tips About Interviewing for a Job (p. 53)
Chapter 5 The Six Secrets of Salary Negotiation (p. 83)
Chapter 6 What to Do When Your Job-Hunt Just Isn't Working (p. 99)
Chapter 7 Self-Inventory, Part 1 (p. 111)
Chapter 8 Self-Inventory, Part 2 (p. 125)
Chapter 9 You Get to Choose Where You Work (p. 199)
Chapter 10 How to Deal with Any Handicaps You Have (p. 219)
Chapter 11 The Five Ways to Choose/Change Careers (p. 241)
Chapter 12 How to Start Your Own Business (p. 257)
The Pink Pages
Appendix A Finding Your Mission in Life (p. 274)
Appendix B A Guide to Dealing with Your Feelings While Out of Work (p. 297)
Appendix C A Guide to Choosing a Career Coach or Counselor (p. 306)
Appendix D Sampler List of Coaches (p. 320)
Appendix E Recent Foreign Editions of What Color Is Your Parachute? (p. 337)
The Final Word: Notes from the Author for This Edition (p. 338)
About the Author (p. 344)
Update 2018 (p. 345)
Index (p. 346)
Additional Helpful Resources from the Author (p. 355)

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)