What
Color Is Your Parachute? 2017 – A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career
Changers – Richard N. Bolles (Ten Speed Press)
There are a handful of authors/books that become the
epitome of timelessness and influence. For self-improvement and interpersonal
skills, there is Dale Carnegie’s, How to
Win Friends and Influence People. For growing your business/developing your
team, Jim Collins offered up Good To
Great. For personal development, Stephen Covey’s, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. All hold a special place for
ability to impact the reader if they choose to implement the skills and
insights these books have to offer.
When it comes to jobs search and career development,
one book stands head and shoulders above the rest, and has for more than four
decades. That book is What Color Is Your
Parachute? 2017 – A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career Changers, by career guru, Richard N. Bolles. A Harvard trained physicist, Bolles has made it
an annual right of passage to update and expand this handy guide to include the
latest in job search trends and techniques, alongside tried and true skills for
selecting or changing a career path, interviewing and salary negotiation.
Bolles brings a dynamic level of passion to the advice
he offers to both seasoned job searchers and to those who are just setting sail
on their career path. Bolles doesn’t shy away from offering up his advice on
choosing to start your own business; which is clearly a very real career path
for many folks.
Linkedin? Yep Bolles is on it and offers up suggestions
on how to best utilize the business networking site to your advantage in a job
search. If you find yourself on the beach, as my colleagues dubbed back during
my days in radio, Bolles offers up some useful advice for your mental health
during the job search. No pop psychologist, is this chapter Bolles serves of
practical advice, based on time and experience.
What
Color Is Your Parachute? Is one of those timeless guideposts
that can offer up useful advice for those in the work force at any stage of
their career. It stands up to the test of time due in large part to the driving
force behind it all.
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