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For over 25 years, Parachute has been the best-selling job-hunting book in the world, now with over 6 million copies in print. From the very beginning it has been revised annually to keep up with changing times and a changing job market, and as things change ever more quickly (particularly, of course, with the Internet and all that it's meant to the business world) this becomes more and more important. Recently, the book was more dramatically revised than ever before -- splitting into two books in one binding, to address the needs of job-hunters in an even more useful package.
This year's edition has the same innovative device, making the 560-page length unprecedentedly user-friendly. These essential things that every job-hunter or career-changer must know -- figuring out what it is you really want to do, and getting the perfect job in the most expedient way possible -- are still found in the first volume, called, as ever, "What Color Is Your Parachute".
The optional things that are usefulto many but not all readers -- job-hunting on the Internet (newly revised with up-to-the-minute information on URLs and more), finding one's mission in life, relocating for a job, even dealing with depression -- are now found in the new bound-in second volume, titled The Parachute Workbook And Resource Guide.
We've heard from a lot of readers about this new format, and what they say is ... it works! Readers in a hurry can get what they need and get going towards the job of their dreams, while those with special needs or interests can find help easily. To further aid the reader in a real hurry (if, say, the interview is scheduled for tomorrow morning!), this edition once again begins with athree-chapter overview called For the Impatient Job-Hunter, a "summary of everything" that ca
Author Notes
Richard Nelson Bolles was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on March 19, 1927. During World War II, he served in the Navy. He studied chemical engineering for two years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, then transferred to Harvard University, where he received a bachelor's degree in physics. After graduation, he decided to become an Episcopal minister. He received a master's degree in New Testament studies from General Theological Seminary in New York and was ordained in 1953.
He had been a clergyman for 18 years when a combination of budget problems and philosophical differences with superiors led to the elimination of his job and his dismissal in 1968 as a pastor at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. After six months of searching, he got a job with United Ministries in Higher Education, an interdenominational church organization that recruited and supported college chaplains across the country. However, when the college chaplains were increasingly being laid off, he decided to help the chaplains find new careers. He was an ordained Episcopal minister until 2004, when he left the ministry.
In 1970, he self-published What Color Is Your Parachute?: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers as a photocopied how-to booklet for unemployed ministers. In 1972, he recast it to appeal to a wider audience and found an independent publisher willing to print small batches so that it could be frequently updated. His other books included How to Find Your Mission in Life and The Three Boxes of Life and How to Get Out of Them. He died on March 31, 2017 at the age of 90.
(Bowker Author Biography)
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Booklist Review
That he can still draw a standing-room-only crowd at an annual conference of librarians 27 years after the first publication of his now-classic guide to career planning and job hunting attests to Bolles' popularity and impact. First published in 1970 and annually revised since 1975, Parachute continues to set the standard. Bolles divides his guide into what are now two completely separate publications bound together. His basic advice to job hunters and career changers forms the first half of the manual and is republished with little detectable revision. "The Parachute Workbook and Resource Guide" constitutes the second half, and it also follows the same basic pattern as last year's but includes revised and updated resource listings and tips for "special populations." Even here some of the sections have not been altered in any way, but such sections as "Job-Hunting on the Internet" have been substantially revised. The question of whether these changes are enough to warrant purchase of Bolles' guide is probably moot. For many, annual acquisition of this book is necessary simply to replenish missing stock! (Reviewed December 15, 1997)0898159326David Rouse
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