What Color Is Your Parachute? 2006: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers

This book has so many helps to assist in the discovery of what you are best suited for, how to find the right job, and how to sell yourself to get hired. A timely book as so many are forced to find new work. Get the right job, this is a great help. I've given it to many who are leaving active military service.

I was recently "downsized" and starting a job search for the first time in 22 years. Fortunately some one recommended this book to me. Beginning a job search can be confusing and overwhelming. This book has great advice for every step of the way.Part of my company "goodbye package" was a few months of services with a career counseling firm. Many on the concepts from the firm are contained in this book. I have just recommended this book to a friend who is unhappy in her current job.You've probably heard people talk about the importance of networking/using your network. ("It's all in who you know.") That is a central theme in this book, as it enlightens you on how to make use of the people you know -- friends, family, co-workers, friends of friends, etc. -- to find opportunities and land interviews.A book worth having.

If you are anything like me and are looking where to go next in your career, than this is the book for you.It has tons of places to look for anything from how to get personality tests for free online, to helpfull tips and exercises to help you figure out what kind of job would suit you best.Before I read this book I read 15 other "Job Hunt" books. But, this book didn't just tell me how to write a resume, or dress for a job interview; this book helped me decide what direction I wanted to go in my life. A huge difference!I got the book from the library first, and then realized I had to own a copy to get the most from it that I could.

The author has great career advice to give and where specific advice is found in this book, it's delivered very well.Unfortunately, to get the excellent advice and facts about the business of putting the effort, selling yourself, and landing a job, you have to drag yourself through numerous pages of soft existential text. I found no clear strategy to jump ahead without missing important ideas.Reading this book is like wandering around the once-in-a-lifetime garage sale of a retentive genius.For the sake of future readers I hope the author would take the time to put this text on a treadmill, as only he could do. I bet half the text could go without losing any of the awesome advice.

Excellent book if you are serious about preparing yourself for that next new job. or career. Everything you need to know about resumes, interviews, salary negotiation, identifying your strengths and skill sets etc. The book will challenge you to take a closer look at who you are as an indivdual in an effort to #1 Build confidence in your interviews #2 Keep your confidence in the job market even after you have landed that "Perfect job". It's an easy read with no fluff. The layout is great. This one is a keeper. Buy the book, get your pen & pad ready, rediscover who you are and never feel inadequate in a job interview again.

I think maybe this author is a little too comfortable with how successful his book has been in the past, because this edition was so overstuffed with anecdotal and sometimes patronizingly excessive information that I had a hard time actually finding useful stuff. It's in there, but you really have to weed through a lot of fluff to find it. I much preferred the "Cool Careers for Dummies" book, which actually gives practical ways for you to look "inward" and figure out what you want to do with your life. Plus, they have realistic, straightforward information about careers that might interest you. Mr. Bolles may have a lot of experience and think that readers are hanging on his every word, but I did not buy the book to read it for pleasure, I just want to find a career, and some practical ways to get me there without all of the useless banter.

If you are looking for a job or a new career of any kind, I highly recommend this book. Extremely thorough with lots of good advice. Easy and entertaining to read. The writer seems to have thought of every angle when it comes to this subject. But then given the number of years he has been writing on this topic that is not surprising. I also appreciate that he revises this book each year so that it is up to date with today's job market.

The book is full of fascinating information about how to go about job hunting. Then comes the harder part when it asks you to work through a series of exercises to determine what work you are suited for and what fits you and your interests. The exercises seem tedious, but are remarkably insightful in helping you to find what it is that you want to be when you grow up! Excellent book for job hunters, job changers, and career jumpers!

I purchased this book based on a freinds recomendation, he told me it really helped him and is great, i however found it tough to get into, very chunky and very dull. instead of this i would recomend, jobhunting 3.0 the interview book and a good cv writing book, these 3 will get you really far.

A famous classic. Gods knows why. I thought it was terrible.