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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
By Richard N. Bolles
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What Color Is Your Parachute? Job-Hunter's Workbook, Sixth Edition by Richard N. Bolles, is an engaging guide designed to help job seekers identify their career goals and aspirations through a series of practical exercises. This workbook invites readers to explore their skills, interests, and values to create a customised action plan for successful job hunting and career advancement.
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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

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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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