What Color Is Your Parachute?: Your Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career Success Paperback – December 27, 2022

This was recommended when exploring my next career. It took time to go through the exercises but found it super helpful and enlightening. If you’re considering a career change or even just wanting to explore other options that might be a good fit for you, read this book and do all the exercises. It gives you a lot to reflect on!

Really great book designed to give you perspective on your career outlook and choices. It helped me narrow down that I want out of a job, how to identify my strengths and weaknesses, and ways to interview and network. It comes with a ton of resources as well. It’s concise and I worked through it in about a month and a half. Highly recommend.

"What Color Is Your Parachute?" is an invaluable resource for anyone seeking career guidance. Richard N. Bolles' classic book offers practical, actionable advice for job seekers and career changers. I found the self-assessment exercises particularly enlightening, helping me identify my skills, values, and ideal work environment. The book's up-to-date strategies for networking and job hunting in the digital age were also extremely useful. Bolles' encouraging tone made the daunting task of career planning feel manageable and even exciting. This book helped me discover what a fulfilling career path looks like.

This book is the latest edition of a well-known career/job searching book that's been around for decades. It's updated every few years and tends to compile a substantial amount of career counselor advice into a single volume. Even if you are not currently searching, it's not a bad idea to be aware of the job market and how to navigate it.Some advice here is what I've heard before. Some is new. Some is updates of previous advice that's shifted. It's not perfect, nor can it be because there are a lot of intricacies with the market. My only real issue with this book, which cost it a star, is sticking political diatribe in there. I've really grown tired of people throwing their political activism into books that are not political. I despise politics and I do not have any interest in this battle between the left and the right.

I bought the latest copy of this book but it really hasn’t changed from the one I had 20 years ago. It just looks nicer. I still think it is thought provoking. If you have an older copy I wouldn’t recommend buying a new one unless you just want a clean copy to work with again.

This book wasn't available until 1970 - and there have been multiple changes in it in the years since then to adjust to corporal cultural changes and business methodologies. It remains one of the best resources for anyone to determine where their personal interests and workplace openings meet. In the past I've suggested to people they borrow a copy from a library, or bought their own. This year there is a young, somewhat unprepared, graduate seeking advice for their future. Frankly, I doubted there would be a follow through if I suggested the library or purchase. However, I know how helpful the book has been in decades past, and how the updates keep it current, so I bought it, gifted it, and made it a point not to suggest anything right now but finding the answers from the book's instructions on how to find a persons own path. After that's complete, I'd love to mentor this person as I expect they will have a clue to what will bring them an income to meet their expertise. As I said - recommended for decades, and continuing to do so.

I first bought this book about 40 years ago? It helped me commit to paper all the things I liked, and the things I was most proud of. From this book, I discovered things about myself and talents I have that I would not have recognized without the book. I worked hard at this book, if I remember correctly, for a week. It was time well spent, because as a young college grad, I started my resume with two-single spaced typed pages which, I then edited down. In those early years, I was asked by a few potential employers who I hired to write my resume. I don’t think they believed me when I told them I wrote it myself. I used quotes from college professors and former bosses to flesh out my skills. When you don’t have much experience, you need examples like that to prove your worth. If you are the president of a successful company, you may only need one sentence. I cannot recommend the exercises in this book enough. Buy it. Any version of it. It will get you started on a great resume

Wow so so much invaluable information! It is up to date and shatters the way most people do a job search. The book guides you in discovering your strengths and likes/preferences. Lots of valuable practical suggestions. But I have to warn you, be ready to spend several hours on the suggested study guides. It will take you some time and much reflection to complete the book and its recommendations but... GUARANTEED you will be much more prepared and enlightened about your job search. HIGHLY RECOMEND it