- Item type
- Book
- Language
- English
- Publication year
- 2017
- Edition no.
- 40th anniversary ed.
- ISBN
- 978-0-399-57820-5
- Note
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.
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..
