The 2009 What Color is Your Parachute?

The 2009 What Color is Your Parachute?
Author: Richard Nelson Bolles
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1580089313

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A guide to discovering personal goals and interests explains how to apply that information toward obtaining satisfying employment

What Color is Your Parachute? for Teens

What Color is Your Parachute? for Teens
Author: Carol Christen
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2010
Genre: High school students
ISBN: 158008141X

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Presents advice for teenagers on landing a dream job.

What Color Is Your Parachute? Guide to Job-Hunting Online, Sixth Edition

What Color Is Your Parachute? Guide to Job-Hunting Online, Sixth Edition
Author: Mark Emery Bolles
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2011-05-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1607740338

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Before you start your Internet job-hunt, there are some things that you must know, like: • Why are job sites like Monster and CareerBuilder so stunningly ineffective? • What can you do to make sure your resumes survive the elimination process? • How do you find the information that search engines like Google can’t? • How can you tell the difference between a genuinely helpful job board, and a website designed only to collect resumes? • When are hobby forums more helpful than business networking sites? • When is the Internet not helpful when job-hunting? • What is the fatal flaw of all social networking sites? The Guide to Job-Hunting Online, 6th Edition, not only answers these questions and many more, but shows you how to comprehensively and effectively use the Internet for all aspects of your job-hunt. This companion to What Color Is Your Parachute?, the best-selling job-hunting book in the world, has been completely rewritten for our changing times and includes hundreds of updated website recommendations and descriptions. The Guide to Job-Hunting Online shows you how to quickly find the data that will be most helpful to you, how to identify and research the places where you will most enjoy working, how to leverage the power of social networking sites, and how to use your Internet time most effectively, avoiding the common pitfalls and setting you up for success.

What Color Is Your Parachute? for Retirement, Second Edition

What Color Is Your Parachute? for Retirement, Second Edition
Author: John E. Nelson
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2010-07-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 158008205X

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Plan Now for the Life You Want Today’s economic realities have reset our expectations of what retirement is, yet there’s still the promise for what it can be: a life stage filled with more freedom and potential than ever before. Given the new normal, how do you plan for a future filled with prosperity, health, and happiness? As a companion to What Color Is Your Parachute?, the world’s best-selling career book, What Color Is Your Parachute? for Retirement offers both a holistic, big-picture look at these years as well as practical tools and exercises to help you build a life full of security, vitality, and community. This second edition contains updates throughout, including a section on Social Security, an in-depth exercise on values and how they inform your retirement map, and the one-of-a-kind resource for organizing the sea of information on finances and mental and physical health: the Retirement Well-Being Profile. More than a guide on where to live, how to stay active, or which investments to choose, What Color Is Your Parachute? for Retirement helps you develop a detailed picture of your ideal retirement, so that—whether you’re planning retirement or are there already—you can take a comprehensive approach to make the most of these vital years.

The Career Counselor's Handbook, Second Edition

The Career Counselor's Handbook, Second Edition
Author: Howard Figler
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2011-10-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1607743558

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With more than sixty-five combined years of experience in the career development field, Howard Figler and Richard Nelson Bolles are the undisputed authorities when it comes to helping people find meaningful work. In this revised and updated second edition of their classic guide for career counselors, Figler and Bolles show aspiring counselors how to break into the business, and give experienced counselors ideas for improving effectiveness and recharging their practice. Outlining tools, problem-solving tips, and ethical values for today's career counselor, THE CAREER COUNSELOR'S HANDBOOK features new information about performing the Annual Career Checkup, choosing Essence over Ego, and using the Internet-while celebrating the fact that even career counselors need counsel once in a while.

I Don't Know What I Want, But I Know It's Not This

I Don't Know What I Want, But I Know It's Not This
Author: Julie Jansen
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2016-03-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0698409019

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The quintessential guide to kick-starting your career, fully revised and updated for the ever-changing modern job market Despite a recovering economy, many Americans are still losing their jobs, while many who do have jobs are overworked, maxed out, and miserable. In this fully revised and updated edition of I Don’t Know What I Want, But I Know It’s Not This, career coach Julie Jansen shows how anyone—whether you’re unhappy with your job, or without one—can implement a real and satisfying transformation. Changing careers, conducting a job search, or starting a business is more complicated than ever before. Jansen has updated her classic guide to address the unique challenges of today’s job market, from the ever-more important world of social media to new ways of funding your own endeavors online. Filled with quizzes, personality assessments, and real-life examples, this guide helps you identify the type of work you’re best suited for and provides the know-how—and the inspiration—for transforming an uncertain time into an opportunity for meaningful change.

The Job-Hunter's Survival Guide

The Job-Hunter's Survival Guide
Author: Richard N. Bolles
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2012-04-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0307759423

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One hundred pages of lifesaving advice for people out of work. When over ten million people have needed help with their job-hunt—or with figuring out what to do with their life—there is one person they have turned to, more than any other. He is Richard N. Bolles, author of the #1 job-hunting book of all time, What Color Is Your Parachute? His name is well-known around the world. Just during the last twelve months, he has appeared in Time (“10 Ideas Changing the World Right Now,” March 2009), U.S. News & World Report (deemed “savior of the nation’s unemployed,” October 2008), NBC’s Today Show (broadcast in April 2009), and many other publications and shows. His book was the #1 best-seller on BusinessWeek’s paperback list as recently as last November. Never has his advice been more sought than during these brutal economic times. He has responded by writing a completely new book: The Job-Hunter’s Survival Guide, designed particularly for people who are hanging on the ropes, who haven’t time to do a lot of reading but need help desperately—and now. Early reviews have called this little Guide “brilliant” and “tremendously helpful.”

You Majored in What?

You Majored in What?
Author: Katharine Brooks, EdD
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2010-03-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0452296005

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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.

Resounding Truth

Resounding Truth
Author: Jeremy Begbie
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2007-12
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0801026954

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A world-renowned scholar and musician helps Christians respond with theological discernment to music.

How to Find Your Mission in Life

How to Find Your Mission in Life
Author: Richard N. Bolles
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2011-11-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1607743566

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Now in Paperback!In this intimate treasury of wit and wisdom, Richard Bolles, author of the job-hunting bible: WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE?, explores the spiritual aspects of finding one’s place in the work world. For anyone who has ever wondered how to make the most of their unique natural gifts, or how to find a vocation that is both socially responsible and personally fulfilling, this enlightening and empowering little volume provides immeasurable guidance. Originally appearing as an appendix in PARACHUTE, this book has led countless people through life’s most difficult passages and is sure to inspire anyone who is either new to the job market or reconsidering their place in it. A guide to exploring the spiritual aspects of finding one’s mission in the workplace. Previous editions have sold 85,000 copies.