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What Color Is Your Parachute? Job-Hunter's Workbook, Seventh Edition

A Companion to the World's Most Popular and Bestselling Career Handbook
Brief Description
The perennial interactive companion to the world's most popular job-search book, updated for 2025, 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... Read More
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The perennial interactive companion to the world's most popular job-search book, updated for 2025, 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:

  • 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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781984863607

Publisher: Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 January 2025

Country: United States

Imprint: Ten Speed Press

Edition: Revised edition

Illustration: 10 ILLUSTRATIONS

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 203.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 80

About the Author

Richard N. Bolles led the job-search field for more than forty years. A member of Mensa and the Society for Human Resource Management, he served as the keynote speaker at hundreds of conferences. Bolles held a bachelor's degree cum laude in physics from Harvard University, a master's degree from General Theological (Episcopal) Seminary in New York City, and three honorary doctorates.

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