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From Barnes & Noble: It began as a seventies word-of-mouth bestseller; now, forty years later, with ten million copies sold, Richard Bolles' What Color Is Your Parachute ranks as the most popular job-hunting book in the history of the world. Sharpened from year to year and decade to decade, this carefully conceived 384-page guidebook contains the current information you need to use Internet job-search and online social media sites more efficiently. In addition, readers can tap an update version of the book's valuable Transferable Skills Inventory and job-field exercises. A treasure trove for recent graduates and career-changers alike. - From WorldCat

INTRODUCTION --- Chapter 1: How to find hope --- Chapter 2: Survival skills you most need in today's world --- I. ATTITUDES NECESSARY FOR SURVIVAL --- Chapter 3: Three attitudes necessary for survival --- Chapter 4: How to deal with handicaps --- II. ADVANCED JOB-FINDING TECHNIQUES --- Chapter 5: Best and worst ways to look for those job vacancies that are out there --- Chapter 6: Do I really need a resume? --- Chapter 7: Networking in this age of social media --- Chapter 8: Sixteen tips about interviewing --- Chapter 9: The six secrets of salary negotiation --- III. ADVANCED JOB-CREATION TECHNIQUES --- Chapter 10: Starting your own business --- Chapter 11: Being inventive is key to survival --- Chapter 12: How to choose a new career --- IV. INVENTORY OF WHAT YOU HAVE TO OFFER THE WORLD --- Chapter 13: Self-inventory (the flower exercise) --- What skills do you most enjoy using? --- Where do you want to use those skills? --- How do you find the name of that kind of job (or jobs)? --- V. EACH ONE TEACH ONE --- Chapter 14: Teaching survival job-hunting to others --- THE PINK PAGES --- Appendix A: Finding your mission in life --- Appendix B: Guide to dealing with unemployment depression --- Appendix C: Guide to choosing a career coach or counselor --- Appendix D: Sampler list of coaches..