What Color Is Your Parachute? 2022

Your Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career Success

By: Richard N. Bolles, Katharine Brooks EdD - contributor

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 11 hrs and 18 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 2022.

“One of the first job-hunting books on the market. It is still arguably the best. And it is indisputably the most popular.” - Fast Company

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 edition has been fully revised for 2022 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, and acing virtual interviews. Building on the wisdom of original author Richard N. Bolles, this edition updates the famed Flower Exercise (which walks job seekers through the seven ways of thinking about themselves) and demystifies the entire job-search process, from writing resumes to interviewing and networking.

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

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I love it

It was really well explained and overall pathfinder,
I would give 5 stars, but in my personal opinion I will remove or at least diminish the religious content in the blue pages episode.
But still I highly recommend it to all who are still looking for a career, and how to start

Worst Narrator

It was very difficult to get past this over-the-top narrator who delivers a spirit-crushing performance. He has a condescending tone and monotone delivery that cancels out any goodwill this book provides.

Helpful book

I've been told for a very long time that I need to read this book. Now that I have I can say that it has been incredibly helpful to me. Starting this book I was in my late twenties and now I'm 30 trying to figure out what I meant to do with my life. And finding a meaningful career. I feel like lots of us are in this stage even younger and older generation as well where sometimes you just don't know what you're meant to do. I read this book hoping I would get the answer. Although I don't have the exact answer of what I'm supposed to do and exactly where I meant to be after reading. I do feel like this book gave very helpful advice on figuring out who you are as a person. It shows certain traits, skills that you have, your priorities and places, Fields that interest you. The way the flower diagram was made I do think it's helpful in breaking down different aspects of your life, career and personality that are important to figure out. I did learn about myself after reading this book. Some of the worksheets are incredibly helpful. The prioritizing grid is great and so is the blank salary sheet. I found that incredibly helpful in managing my finances. Overall I would recommend this book.

Great Advice

I appreciated the step by step process on figuring out how to write a resume and interviewing.

So much filler.

I’m in the first two hours but so far there sooo many parts where the authors simple lists useless examples for minutes at a time. In one part they are like “there’s nothing that can keep you from being rejected everywhere from a job like: being too old or being too young or being to beautiful or being too ugly or being too simple or being too complex” and on and on and on.

If the rest of the book is like this it makes me think that this is simply filler. There not enough useful information in the book to make it 11 hours long while not having word salads like this.

Maybe it has useful advice, but far and few between.

Great even for the experienced

The authors provide great advice to help remind you that your sense of worth may have no relation to your invitations for interviews.
Also, they give great perspective about the real goals for your resume/ CV as well as the real reasons for your interview… and why your questions to the interviewer may be more important than your answer to their questions…
Great resource!

Monotone

It's decent information but they constantly start going through a long list in the a monotone voice. I forget what the point was long before the list ends. I wish there was a "skip list" option lol

Great book!

Many helpful and insightful guidance and education. Highly recommend reading or listening to this book.

Vehicle for a religious message

This book attempts to provide a little advice about a lot of things, ranging over practically every aspect of navigating the job search. It even touches briefly on advice for the self-employed, for example.

I appreciate that they make an effort to update the guide each year to allow for current issues, even though that must increase their expenses, and makes it harder to accumulate a large number of reviews for any one version.

I appreciate that they tried to make a structured approach to helping people find work. I'm all about documented, structured processes that can be improved over time. It's far from perfect, but it's a heck of a lot better than nothing, and could be legitimately useful for people without much job searching experience.

The advice isn't always correct. Ok, I thought, maybe I should cut them some slack. It must be hard to fact-check on so many different topics... even though they've been publishing this book for half a century. So what if they say punching pillows is a great way to work off anger (incorrect - it tends to enhance feelings of aggression) or that "enthusiasm" means the Christian God is inside you, inspiring you (misleading - not only is it irrelevant, but a quick Google of the etymology shows that it means more that you're inspired or possessed by "a god" or some kind of spirit, and was often used in a deragatory sense).

Still, it seemed like a good guide. Not great, but good. Something I might recommend to people early in their careers.

And then I hit the last chapter.

The authors maintain that promoting Christianity is absolutely essential in a book about job hunting. Why? Because, essentially, the majority of humans say they are somewhat religious (although they might be Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Wiccan, Jain, or vaguely spiritual). Therefore, it would be a great disservice to the majority of people to NOT talk about religion in a business book. I'm not convinced by that logic. I think the authors would do well to survey random international readers and see if they feel the book is better with or without that section. I think the answer would surprise them. And of course, it conflates all religion - including people who have a general sense of being religious, without actually attending any services or ascribing to any particular beliefs. Then it promotes a specific American evangelical worldview, as if it is equally applicable to all of them. Furthermore, and likely most damning, the author seems to be convinced that it is impossible to have purpose in your life without religion.

I'm sorry, but religion is NOT necessary to be an ethical, moral person. It is NOT necessary to have religion to have purpose in your life. You can still be focused on raising your children, achieving recognition in your field, making discoveries, saving the planet or helping the less fortunate without needing to participate in any sort of mystical belief.

garbage

Garbage. I would provide some insightful feedback buy that is what I expected to recieve from this publication.