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What Color Is Your Parachute?: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career Changers

by Richard Nelson Bolles

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Publisher Comments:

Still the bestselling job-hunting book and a favorite of career changers for more than three decades, this gold standard of career guides" ("Fortune") has been updated for 2008 with new examples, instructions, and cautionary advice.

Description:

WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? is still the best-selling job-hunting book in the world. A favorite of job hunters and career changers for more than three decades, it continues to be a mainstay on best-seller lists, from Amazon.com to Business Week to the New York Times, where it has spent more than six years, and has been translated into 12 languages. The 2008 edition is an even more useful book, with its updated, inspiring, and detailed plan for changing readers? lives. With new examples, instructions, and cautionary advice, PARACHUTE is, to quote Fortune magazine, ?the gold standard of career guides.?

About the Author

RICHARD NELSON BOLLES has been a leader in the career development field for more than 35 years. He has been the keynote speaker at hundreds of conferences and has spoken to thousands of people all over the world. He was trained in chemical engineering (MIT) and holds a BA degree cum laude in physics (Harvard University) and a master’s in sacred theology (General Theological Seminary, Episcopal, in New York City). He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Product Details

ISBN:
9781580088671
Subtitle:
A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career Changers
Author:
Bolles, Richard Nelson
Author:
Bolles, Richard Nelson
Publisher:
Ten Speed Press
Subject:
Career Management
Subject:
Job Hunting
Subject:
Career changes
Edition Description:
2008 Paperback
Series:
What Color Is Your Parachute?
Publication Date:
October 2007
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
432
Dimensions:
8.94x6.14x1.03 in. 1.34 lbs.

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