What Color Is Your Parachute? 2005: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers

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In PARACHUTE 2005, Bolles offers a completely new book for this uncertain job market, laying out a simple, step-by-step plan for finding meaningful work and mission despite our economy’s jobless recovery.

Featuring fresh explanations of old concepts and the introduction of new ideas, Bolles defines the distinctions between "resume jobs" and "grapevine jobs," between "passive job-hunting" and "active job-hunting," between "weak ties" and "strong ties," and much more. These are not normal times. And this is not your normal PARACHUTE. It faces squarely the "workquake" that is shaking up the job market around the world, and gives not only simple steps but steady hope.

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Editorials

	Book Description
	In the last four years, the United States has lost 2.3 million jobs—the most in any four-year period since Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression. Currently, millions of workers are unemployed both in the United States... read full editorial
	From the Publisher
	*A completely revised and restructured PARACHUTE for 2005. *Focuses on the rising problem of unemployment in the economy’s current jobless recovery. *Offers new techniques to help job seekers find meaningful work and mission. *200,000 copy first printing.

Customer Reviews

	This book is THE one.
	(Abilene, Kansas) November 15, 2004 - 5.0/5 stars
	No Question...if you want one book that lets you know all there is no about the jobs environment today...this is the one to buy!! All other books basically owe their existence to this writer...it is well organized, easy... read full review
	A Worthwhile Journey - Essential for Career Direction
	(Carlsbad, CA United States) December 30, 2004 - 5.0/5 stars
	I researched Bolles' updated for 2005 and it is still a classic. My review below still stands, but updated as follows. Bolles' advice on the new realities we are struggling under is very pointed. There are jobs and ways... read full review
	Definitely not for fresh graduates
	(Austin, TX, USA) November 12, 2004 - 1.0/5 stars
	One Star Lucile, Mechanical Engineer I am a fresh engineering graduate and trying to break into this new world of employment. I did not realize that the job market is so different from what I expected and what it was when... read full review

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