What Color Parachute
Author: Greg Heslin

First published in 1970, What Color Is Your Parachute? is now
in it's 35th printing. This book is a detailed guide for those
who are going through the agonizing process of job hunting or
changing careers. This book has now sold over 9 million copies,
and in 2006 Fortune magazine said: "Parachute remains the gold
standard of career guides." It's author, Richard Nelson Bolles,
has become a real guru in the job search arena, having probably
advised more people through the 35 versions of his book than
almost anyone in the business. Unlike many reprints, the various
iterations of Parachute aren't just a re-issue of the same text
year after year. As our job market has evolved, Richard Bolles
has refocused the book to address current issues of concern to
job hunters, applying fresh insight and experience with each
edition.

Initially a more traditionally conceived step-by-step approach
to developing resumes, interviewing and job hunting, today's
version of Parachute is an in depth and very practical look at
the whole job search process. Richard Bolles has moved the topic
of changing jobs and/or careers into the realm of
self-reflection, coupled with a consideration of the difficult
and baffling factors of today's job market.

The book looks at the best and worst ways to job hunt, to get
and succeed in an interview, and how to make the most of your
network of friends, family and current or former colleagues.
More than that, Parachute helps you understand the nature of
today's job market, and, if you haven't been in the "hunt" for a
few years, this is an eye-opening view of the changes that have
taken place over the years. Employment cycles run from too many
people seeking jobs to not nearly enough people to fill the jobs
available, and this book is up-to-date on where things stand in
2007. Because these cycles have a dramatic impact on the hiring
behavior of employers, Parachute reflects what you are facing
right now. (That's a good reason to make sure you are using the
latest edition of this book.)

The 2007 edition of Parachute helps the reader look at the
process of job search and career change as a personal evolution,
moving beyond finding work to looking at some of the deeper
drivers of each person's career motivation. This book seeks not
to stop with a list of things to do, but rather to continue past
the "to do's" with guidance for readers on taking a serious look
at how what they love to do and what they are good at doing can
merge into a fulfilling career.

This version of Parachute is more interactive than ever, with
many ways of analyzing where you are in life and what motivates
you, along with the practical analysis of potential career
opportunities matched to your skills and those things that you
are simultaneously good at and find fulfilling. The book talks
about discerning your transferable skills, strongest traits and
fields of interest, or what Bolles calls "fields of
fascination." Bolles is trying to help the reader go beyond
matching what they have always done to creating a whole realm of
possibilities based on the things that are critically important
to them.The book provides numerous models and methods to get to
the heart of what kind of work in what kind of career field will
not only pay the rent, but also make you happy.

Probably one of the most unique aspects of What Color Is Your
Parachute? is the introspective focus, looking at a job and
career search from the filter of your values, the kind of people
you want to associate with, working conditions and even the
geographical preferences ... all designed to help you find a job
that in every way is a career that will be lasting and
meaningful to you.


About The Author: Greg Heslin is a best selling career advice
and "street smart" tips author on how to survive in the 21st
Century workplace.To learn more about FREE cutting edge career
tips and techniques, you can visit his web site at
http://www.My-New-Career.com