What Color Is Your Parachute? 2006: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers
by Richard Nelson Bolles
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Author: Richard Nelson BollesEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-11-16
ISBN: 1580087272
Number of pages: 402
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
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Book Review: A Good Value -- Still Ahead of Its Time
Summary: 5 Stars
If one has not lost a job recently, or quit in disgust, one is considered fortunate. The turnover rate at companies large and small is growing. Outsourcing, economic slowdowns and other factors, like globalization make job security in most fields a thing of the past.
Businesses in this country are often caught dealing unethically with their employees -- citing competition from low-cost, offshore workers who will work for a fraction of what it costs to live here, or worse, declaring bankruptcy -- to walk away from commitments to pension benefits and health benefits that were promised when times were better, or at least when the workforce was younger.
Employees asked to take big pay cuts and benefits give-backs, while the top brass rake in double-digit raises each year, pulling down millions, pay their employers back in kind. If ethical standards in the business world today are poor, it is mainly, I propose, because people are not doing what they do best, and worse, they are doing work they hate, because they are afraid of losing their jobs.
"What Color Is Your Parachute" addresses the core problem in the working world today: employee satisfaction. Corporations are paper documents, group-think written by lawyers. Corporations are not equipped to, nor responsible for, providing their employees with satisfaction. People: employers, employees, entrepreneurs, all individuals, are responsible for finding their own calling in life.
Through exercises and worksheets and questionnaires, What Color Is Your Parachute guides the reader through the difficult task of getting to know himself, or herself, well enough to define their own mission in life.
Once one knows what that unique person should do with their life, finding out how to do it and how to get paid for doing it becomes possible, almost inevitable. One has to listen to oneself, carefully, and critically.
Networking interviews, a concept developed in the earliest editions of this book, some 30 years ago, yield advice from experts in whatever field one chooses. Finding out what one's unique mission in life is, what one is uniquely suited for, and what finds true satisfaction doing, is often much more difficult than the work itself.
Richard Bolles, the author, is a former minister. He is also an expert in career counselling. Each year he revises his book with fresh insight, purpose and ideas for determining what one should do, and how one gets a job in which one does just that.
The 2005 edition boasts a new preface that addresses job loss, vacancies, and outsourcing. Throughout the new edition there is good advice on how to use the Internet in job-hunting. I'll give you a hint. It does not tell one to post one's resume on as many job boards as possible, playing the numbers.
What Color Is Your Parachute offers hope and inspiration in the roiling world of the current job market. It details a plan for finding one's place in this uncertain era. A best-seller for more than 30 years, through fat years and lean years, it continues to be high on the best-seller lists from Amazon to Business Week.
More than eight million copies in at least 12 languages have been sold everywhere in the world.
Bolles helps one find one's own passions, skills and experience. He is a trustworthy guide to getting exactly what one needs: personal accountability, and accomplishment. Finding the work one loves to do is a personal, individual responsibility. He hammers the point home.
If one is still working, doing the exercises in the book may well put one ahead in the game, even if one stays within the same company for 20 years or more. And if one has the misfortune (or perhaps the good fortune) to be laid off, down-sized, right-sized, or fired, then one has no excuse. One has the time.
The paperback is a better value than the hard cover edition. This is a reference book that will eventually wear out if used properly. And the flexibility of the paperback is makes it easier to fit into whatever one is hauling around in the way of a briefcase.
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