What Color Is Your Parachute?, Richard N. Bolles
What Color Is Your Parachute?, Richard N. Bolles
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What Color Is Your Parachute?
Your Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career Success

Author: Richard N. Bolles

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Unabridged: 8 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/18/2025

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

The groundbreaking, indispensable guide to rewarding work and a fulfilling life—more than ten million copies sold!

For more than fifty years, What Color Is Your Parachute? has transformed the way people think about job hunting. Whether searching for that first position, recovering from a layoff, or dreaming of a career change, What Color Is Your Parachute? has shown millions of readers how to network effectively, compose impressive resumes and cover letters, interview with confidence, and negotiate the best possible salary—while discovering how to make their livelihood part of authentic living.
 
More than a job-hunting book, Richard N. Bolles’s timeless wisdom and famed self-assessment exercise clarifies seven key dimensions, so you can uncover your greatest passions, most valued traits, and transferable skills to design a life that enables you to flourish.
 
With the job market in constant flux, people everywhere have found that understanding who they are—what they care about, where and how they do their best work, and the most effective way to express their abilities—is the best compass to navigating an ever-changing and challenging professional landscape. It is also how their work can become part of a life filled with passion and purpose.
 
Using the trailblazing advice and enduring guidance of What Color Is Your Parachute?, job-hunters and career changers will have the tools to discover—and land—the work, and life, most meaningful to them.

* This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF of exercises and charts from the book.

About The Author

Richard N. Bolles led the job-search field for more than forty years. A member of Mensa and the Society for Human Resource Management, he served as the keynote speaker at hundreds of conferences.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Rachel on August 18, 2011

I picked up this book at a time in my life when I was like, "ok, Rachel, it's time to figure some stuff out." Along came Richard Bolles, like my own sweet little Grandpa giving me life advice. He actually had me doing all the cheesy exercises -- lists, graphs, venn-diagrams, even a flower chart for......more

Goodreads review by Begum on October 15, 2016

If you are looking for a book which tries to teach you what you already know, this book is good for you. Other than a few useful websites and tips on finding jobs/your skills, this book was a waste of my time. At the end, the author surprises you by revealing his strong Christian faith; I just don't......more

Goodreads review by j e w e l s on October 15, 2017

This is THE handbook on what to do with the rest of your life! I read this many moons ago when I first graduated from high school and then a few years after that when I had a college degree in my hands. The book is a must-read guide to navigate the confusing job search we all encounter from time to......more

Goodreads review by Chad on June 11, 2022

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 issue......more

Goodreads review by Bren fall in love with the sea. on September 29, 2021

Reread. Fantastic as ever. “Always define WHAT you want to do with your life and WHAT you have to offer to the world, in terms of your favorite talents/gifts/skills-not in terms of a job-title.” What Color Is Your Parachute? 2015 by Richard Nelson Bolles Does anyone EVER know what they want to do with......more