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What Color Is Your Parachute Workbook: How to Create a Picture of Your Ideal Job or Next Career Richard Nelson Bolles 
Rating: 4.0/5 Stars Rank: 1798 (Houston, TX United States) July 20, 2000 - 5.0/5 stars Richard Bolles has published a new version of this book every year. I read it first in college and used it extensively when I worked as a career counselour. I also used it for career seminars. I can honestly say that every edition seems to be quite different from previous versions, so it is not a waste of money at all to buy a more recent version. (the most recent editions seem to talk about online job search, appropriately enough)As a writer, I can admire his work for its readability, sense of humor and gritty realism. Bolles tells some remarkable stories and while not directly applicable to your career area, they make you aware of how similiar job searching is regardless of your field. Before reading this, you should be aware of what this book is NOT: it does not provide resume advice nor does it provide very much advice about general trends in the job market. This book is a sobering dose of reality, but the interesting thing is that the reader finds this information heartening rather than disappointing because it unmasks many of the treacherous parts of the job search process. As such, this book is a great gift for a loved one who is out of work. It will make them feel good about themselves, and that is good, because a lot of unemployed approach job searches with a chip on their shoulder. I used the exercises in the book with clients to help
them analyze what they wanted in an ideal job because clients really had
little idea what was important to them. Overall,
I was not impressed by how Parachute covers online job searching aside
from discussing generalities. Another thing is that I thought it was
unnecessary to deemphasize the spiritual component in the latest version
of the book.
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