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What Color Is Your Parachute? Job-Hunter's Workbook, Sixth Edition
A Companion to the Best-selling Job-Hunting Book in the World
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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
With 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: 9781984858269
Publisher: Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 02 March 2021
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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