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What Color Is Your Parachute? 2005: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers
Richard Nelson Bolles, Mark Emery Bolles
Rating: 4.0/5 Stars
Rank: 278
In the last four years, the United States has lost 2.3 million
jobsthe most in any four-year period since Herbert Hoover and the
Great Depression.
Currently, millions of workers are unemployed both in
the United States and worldwide and the problem isnt likely to abate
anytime soon.
In the 2005 edition of his legendary job-hunting book, WHAT
COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? Richard Bolles presents a detailed plan for
facing this societal problem head-on, declaring that we must each begin by
mastering this new world for ourselves and then, once empowered, share our
knowledge with others to empower the world.
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 economys 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.
About the AuthorRichard Nelson Bolles has been a leader in the career field for more than
30 years. He is former directior of the National Career Development
Project and an alumnus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where
he majored in chemical engineering; Harvard University, where he graduated
cum laude with a bachelor's degree in physics; and the General Theological
(Episcopal) Seminary in New York City; where he earned a master's degree in
New Testament studies.
He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Editorials
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What Color Is Your Parachute? 2005: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers
Richard Nelson Bolles, Mark Emery Bolles
![]() | | | From the Publisher | | *A completely revised and restructured PARACHUTE for 2005. *Focuses on
the rising problem of unemployment in the economys current jobless
recovery. *Offers new techniques to help job seekers find meaningful
work and mission. *200,000 copy first printing. |
Customer Reviews
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What Color Is Your Parachute? 2005: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers
Richard Nelson Bolles, Mark Emery Bolles
![]() | | | Bolles has done it again | | (Seattle, WA) November 15, 2004 - 5.0/5 stars | | I've been writing an internationally syndicated business advice column,
Working Wounded, for nine years. "What Color Is Your Parachute?" has been
head and shoulders above any other career book over the last decade. But
with... read full review |
![]() | | | Simply the Best -- Gets better every year! | | (USA) March 3, 2005 - 5.0/5 stars | | Better than all the rest. This is an annually updated guide to finding your
next job. Your next career. Your next passion. Read the book completely
once. Then block off a day or two of your life and do the exercises... 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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