What Color Is Your Parachute? 2021

Your Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career Success

By: Richard N. Bolles, Katharine Brooks EdD

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins

Publisher's summary

With timeless advice, up-to-the-minute insights, and more than ten million copies sold over fifty years, the world’s most popular and best-selling career guide is fully revised and expanded for 2021.

In today’s challenging job-market, as recent grads face a shifting economic landscape and seek work that pays and inspires, as workers are laid off mid-career, and as people search for an inspiring work-life change, the time-tested advice of What Color Is Your Parachute? is needed more than ever. This completely updated edition features the latest resources, strategies, and perspectives on today’s job market, revealing surprising advice on what works - and what doesn’t - so you can focus your efforts on tactics that yield results.

This practical manual has been fully revised for 2021 by Vanderbilt University Career Center Director Katharine Brooks, EdD, with modern advice on the job hunt strategies that are working today, such as building an online resume, making the most of social media tools to network effectively, interviewing virtually with confidence, and negotiating the best salary possible.

At its core is Richard N. Bolles’s famed Flower Exercise, a unique self-inventory that helps you design your career - and your life - around your key passions, transferable skills, traits, and more.

With the unique and authoritative guidance of What Color Is Your Parachute?, job-hunters and career changers will have all the tools they need to discover - and land - their dream job.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

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PACKED TO THE BRIM with Value

Most valuable book on the subject. So many great writing prompts, checklists, and rubrics to make sure that you are on track

Job hunting

Great career tips. Definitely recommended for anyone even if they aren’t looking for a job. Took a weird religious turn at the end though.

Repetitive

I had to fast forward through a lot of the book. Some good info but extremely repetitive and filled with tons of non essential verbiage. He went on for five mins straight just saying “if your too skinny OR too fat OR too tall OR too black or white or purple or or or or or etc” definitely meant to be read not heard

Helpful, but further evidence of bad work culture

Like seriously, I feel like I'm 17 and listening to a book about how to talk to women. The ego games we play are absolutely insane, and it's discouraging... but yeah, helpful book. I feel like it's best paired with a WCIYP? Workbook.

I'm reaching the end, and the author is so out of touch with people who don't have financial support. Opportunity doesn't knock so often for people with less money.

Icing on the cake: the last stretch of the book victimizes and defends faith and Christianity, further detaching itself from reality.

An Extraordinary Read

this book is absolutely necessary for all men and women of all ages, and at any stage of their live.
It detangles so many mysteries, anxieties, and obscurities revolving around the job hunt.

Mindfulness

Woww, very informative and eye opening.. I will surely recommend this book to any in need of directions in their careers path and self development.