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What Color Is Your Parachute? Job-Hunter's Workbook, Seventh Edition

A Companion to the World's Most Popular and Bestselling Career Handbook

Author Richard N. Bolles
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$14.99 US
Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed | Ten Speed Press
On sale Jan 07, 2025 | 80 Pages | 9781984863607
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The perennial interactive companion to the world's most popular job-search book, updated for 2025, that helps you translate your personal interests into marketable job skills.

This fill-in workbook for the career classic What Color Is Your Parachute? is a helpful tool for recent grads, workers laid off mid-career, and anyone searching for an inspiring work-life change. Featuring:
  • The Flower Exercise that gets everything about your skills and preferences in one place
  • The Party Exercise to help you discover who you work best with
  • The Transferable Skills Grid that helps you discover your most valuable skills

...and more of Richard N. Bolles's helpful charts and activities. This workbook allows job-hunters to roll up their sleeves and discover how their unique interests, passions, and dreams will give them, once completed, a picture of their dream job.
Introduction

The Parachute Approach demands that you do an inventory of who you are and what you love to do, before you set out on your search for (meaningful) work.

Being out of work, or thinking about a new job or career, should speak to your heart. It should say something like this:

Use this opportunity. Make this not only a hunt for a job, but a hunt for a life. A deeper life, a victorious life, a life you’re prouder of.

The world currently is filled with workers whose weeklong cry is, “When is the weekend going to be here?” And, then, “Thank God it’s Friday!” Their work puts bread on the table but . . . they are bored out of their minds. They’ve never taken the time to think out what they uniquely can do, and what they uniquely have to offer to the world. The world doesn’t need any more bored workers. Dream a little. Dream a lot.
Copyright © 2025 by Richard N. Bolles. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
© Glenn Jones
Richard N. Bolles has led the career development field for more than 40 years. A member of Mensa and the Society for Human Resource Management, he has been the keynote speaker at hundreds of conferences. Bolles was trained in chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and holds a bachelor’s degree cum laude in physics from Harvard University, a master’s in sacred theology from General Theological (Episcopal) Seminary in New York City, and three honorary doctorates. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Marci. Visit jobhuntersbible.com. View titles by Richard N. Bolles

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The perennial interactive companion to the world's most popular job-search book, updated for 2025, that helps you translate your personal interests into marketable job skills.

This fill-in workbook for the career classic What Color Is Your Parachute? is a helpful tool for recent grads, workers laid off mid-career, and anyone searching for an inspiring work-life change. Featuring:
  • The Flower Exercise that gets everything about your skills and preferences in one place
  • The Party Exercise to help you discover who you work best with
  • The Transferable Skills Grid that helps you discover your most valuable skills

...and more of Richard N. Bolles's helpful charts and activities. This workbook allows job-hunters to roll up their sleeves and discover how their unique interests, passions, and dreams will give them, once completed, a picture of their dream job.

Excerpt

Introduction

The Parachute Approach demands that you do an inventory of who you are and what you love to do, before you set out on your search for (meaningful) work.

Being out of work, or thinking about a new job or career, should speak to your heart. It should say something like this:

Use this opportunity. Make this not only a hunt for a job, but a hunt for a life. A deeper life, a victorious life, a life you’re prouder of.

The world currently is filled with workers whose weeklong cry is, “When is the weekend going to be here?” And, then, “Thank God it’s Friday!” Their work puts bread on the table but . . . they are bored out of their minds. They’ve never taken the time to think out what they uniquely can do, and what they uniquely have to offer to the world. The world doesn’t need any more bored workers. Dream a little. Dream a lot.
Copyright © 2025 by Richard N. Bolles. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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© Glenn Jones
Richard N. Bolles has led the career development field for more than 40 years. A member of Mensa and the Society for Human Resource Management, he has been the keynote speaker at hundreds of conferences. Bolles was trained in chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and holds a bachelor’s degree cum laude in physics from Harvard University, a master’s in sacred theology from General Theological (Episcopal) Seminary in New York City, and three honorary doctorates. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Marci. Visit jobhuntersbible.com. View titles by Richard N. Bolles

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