What Color Is Your Parachute? 2008: A Practical Manual for Job-hunters and Career-Changers - Hardcover

Bolles, Richard N.

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9781580088688: What Color Is Your Parachute? 2008: A Practical Manual for Job-hunters and Career-Changers

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ISBN 10: 1580088686 ISBN 13: 9781580088688

Publisher: Ten Speed Press, 2007

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Thoroughly revised for 2008, a handy job-hunter's guide explains how to identify one's personal goals and interests and reveals how to apply that information toward obtaining satisfying employment, with tips on interviews, salary negotiation techniques, career searching online, and more, in a guide that reflects the current market. Simultaneous. 125,000 first printing.

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From the Publisher:

* The #1 best-selling career book of all time, revised and updated to keep pace with today's ever-changing job market. * Revisions include new strategies and quick fixes for getting unstuck during your job search; improvements to the efficiency of the exercises to yield better results; and updated resources throughout.

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More Than 10 Million Copies Sold

New York Times and Business Week Best Seller

Chosen by the Library of Congress as one of 25 Books That Have Shaped Readers' Lives

One of the Seven Essential Popular Business Books (Today's Librarian)

Best Overall Career Guide (Career World)

"Parachute still soars with practical advice. This book is a steady seller, always making the USA Today annual list of top-selling books. No wonder: Parachute is practical and trustworthy."
--Jacqueline Blais, USA Today

"Parachute remains the most complete career guide around. . . . It covers all the ground less ambitious books do, as well as some the others don't, mostly in the realm of the psyche."
--Barbara Presley Noble, New York Times

"What Color Is Your Parachute? has been the job-hunting classic for decades. . . . Bolles always goes beyond the routine, including things like useful Internet sites and how to select a career counselor. It's virtually always the best-selling career book, and with good reason."
--David Murphy, San Francisco Chronicle

"Ideally, everyone should read What Color Is Your Parachute? in the tenth grade and again every year thereafter."
--Anne Fisher, Fortune

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