RICHARD N. BOLLES has led the job-search field for more than 40 years. A member of Mensa and the Society for Human Resource Management, he has been the keynote speaker at hundreds of conferences. Bolles holds a bachelor s degree cum laude in physics from Harvard University, a master s degree from General Theological (Episcopal) Seminary in New York City, and three honorary doctorates.
"What Color Is Your Parachute?"is about job-hunting and
career-changing, but it s also about figuring out who you are as a
person and what you want out of life.
"Time
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[One of the] Books that Shaped Work in America. How could I not put
this on the list? . . . In print since 1970 and revised every year
since 1975, it has not only informed and educated job seekers and
job changers in the United States, but also had a global impact
through publication in more than 20 languages. It s basically the
bible of career advice.
United States Department of Labor
Richard is a giant both in my life and certainly in the field. When
you think about his contributions to . . . understanding the whole
notion of three boxes of life, creating the flower exercise, and
the three questions that really help drive our job-finding activity
it is quite remarkable because it certainly changed my life
personally, and it changed most of the work that career counselors
and specialists and coaches perform. And I would expect it changed
all of our work as we think about how we grow talent in
organizations.
Rich Feller, 2012 2013 president of the National Career Development
Association (NCDA)
The new edition of the best-selling job-hunting book "What Color Is
Your Parachute?," in addition to the tried-and-true advice for job
seekers Dick Bolles has provided for close to forty years, has new
information on job-search productivity, job clubs, and how to
organize and manage your job-search. "What Color Is Your
Parachute?" is deservedly the world s most popular job-hunting
book, with over eleven million copies sold in twenty-six
languages.This . . . edition is as relevant today as when it was
first published. Dick Bolles insightfully stays on the cutting edge
of job-searching, and the book is full of new and updated
suggestions, along with the classic advice that continues to hold
true today.
Alison Doyle, About.com Guide
The people who can educate employees and job seekers on how to
really find jobs (and careers) are career counselors and career
coaches. Ideally, a good coach should buy copies of "Parachute" at
wholesale and give a copy to every one of their paying clients.
Richard Knowdell, trainer of career counselors and coaches
. . . 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
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This is a fantastic tool useful to almost everyone. . . . It s so
darn useful because it is about more than just finding a job.
Kevin Kelly, "Cool Tools: A Catalog of Possibilities
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Ideally, everyone should read "What Color Is Your Parachute?" in
the tenth grade and again every year thereafter.
"Fortune
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