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What Color Is Your Parachute? Job-Hunter's Workbook, Sixth Edition

A Companion to the World's Most Popular and Bestselling Career Handbook

By: Richard N. Bolles,Katharine Brooks, EdD

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What Color Is Your Parachute? Job-Hunter's Workbook, Sixth Edition

A Companion to the World's Most Popular and Bestselling Career Handbook

By: Richard N. Bolles,Katharine Brooks, EdD

An interactive companion to the world’s most popular job-search book, updated for 2021, that helps you translate your personal interests into marketable job skills. This fill-in workbook for the career classic What Color Is Your Parachute? is a helpful tool for recent grads, workers laid off mid-career, and anyone searching for an inspiring work-life change. Featuring • New information that addresses the job-market in the pandemic era • The Flower Exercise that gets everything about your skills and preferences in one place • The Party Exercise to help you discover who you work best with • The Transferable Skills Grid that helps you discover your most valuable skills and more of Richard N. Bolles's helpful charts and activities, this workbook allows job-hunters to roll up their sleeves and discover how their unique interests, passions, and dreams will give them, once completed, a picture of their dream job.

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What Color Is Your Parachute? for College

Pave Your Path from Major to Meaningful Work

By: Katharine Brooks, EdD

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What Color Is Your Parachute? for College

Pave Your Path from Major to Meaningful Work

By: Katharine Brooks, EdD

An indispensable guide for college students, adapted from the world’s most popular and bestselling career book, What Color Is Your Parachute? What Color Is Your Parachute? for College is the only guide you need for making the most of your college career from start to finish. Based on the bestselling job-hunting system in the world, created by Richard N. Bolles, it covers deciding on a major, designing a four-year plan with your interests and values in mind, creating impactful social media, developing a resume that stands out in a crowd, and making invaluable connections to the workplace. Filled with introspective activities designed to bring out your unique skills and knowledge for interviews, resumes, and cover letters, this book provides easy-to-follow templates, rubrics, and lists to help you create the best possible social media platform, including LinkedIn. You’ll discover how to leverage your skills and experiences throughout college to start your future—whether that means landing a meaningful internship (and making the most of it!), finding your first job, continuing on to graduate school, or taking a gap year. Whatever your future plans, What Color Is Your Parachute? for College will get you there.

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What Color Is Your Parachute? 2021

Your Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career Success

By: Richard N. Bolles,Katharine Brooks, EdD

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Your Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career Success

By: Richard N. Bolles,Katharine Brooks, EdD

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.

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1984857886

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You Majored in What?

Designing Your Path from College to Career

By: Katharine Brooks, EdD

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You Majored in What?

Designing Your Path from College to Career

By: Katharine Brooks, EdD

Fully revised and updated in 2017, the revolutionary career guide for a new generation of job-seekers, from one of the U.S.’s top career counselors “So what are you going to do with your major?” It’s an innocent question that can haunt students from high school to graduate school and beyond. Relax. Your major is just the starting point for designing a meaningful future. In this indispensable guide, Dr. Katharine Brooks shows you a creative, fun, and intelligent way to figure out what you want to do and how to get it—no matter what you studied in college. You will learn to map your experiences for insights into your strengths and passions, design possible lives, and create goals destined to take you wherever you want to go. Using techniques and ideas that have guided thousands of college students to successful careers, Dr. Brooks will teach you to outsmart and outperform your competition, with more Wisdom Builders and an easily applied career development process. No matter what career you aspire to, You Majored in What? offers a practical, creative, and successful approach to finding your path to career fulfillment.

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What Color is Your Parachute? 2021

Your Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career Success

By: Richard Nelson Bolles,Katharine Brooks

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Your Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career Success

By: Richard Nelson Bolles,Katharine Brooks

Explains how to identify personal goals and interests and reveals how to apply that information toward obtaining satisfying employment, with tips on interviews, salary-negotiation techniques, and career searching online.

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Your Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career Success

By: Richard N. Bolles,Katharine Brooks, EdD

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What Color Is Your Parachute? 2022

Your Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career Success

By: Richard N. Bolles

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Your Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career Success

By: Richard N. Bolles

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 What Color Is Your Parachute? is the world’s most popular job-hunting guide. 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. 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. This practical manual also provides essential tips for writing impressive resumes and cover letters, networking effectively, interviewing with confidence, and negotiating the best salary possible. Whether you’re searching for your first job, were recently laid off, or are dreaming of a career change, What Color Is Your Parachute? will guide you toward a fulfilling and prosperous life’s work.

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What Color Is Your Parachute? Job-Hunter's Workbook, Sixth Edition

A Companion to the World's Most Popular and Bestselling Career Handbook

By: Richard N. Bolles,Katharine Brooks, EdD

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What Color Is Your Parachute? Job-Hunter's Workbook, Sixth Edition

A Companion to the World's Most Popular and Bestselling Career Handbook

By: Richard N. Bolles,Katharine Brooks, EdD

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What Color Is Your Parachute? Job-Hunter's Workbook, Sixth Edition

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