What Color Is Your Parachute? 2021: Your Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career Success

This best selling career handbook should be the 'go-to' book for anyone beginning or changing careers. The basic wisdom, insights, guides and models are comprehensive, relevant and useful for wading through some of the difficult parts of choosing a career. It is so natural for job seekers to just go out and apply without doing the preparation that Bolles recommends. If you ignore the suggestions provided you will hinder your success potential in a new career.

I found the book and the workbook to be very helpful in prompting me to consider my professional and personal life. Well worth the time invested!

I have purchased this book several times over the years - for clients. I use it in my coaching practice. It's very updated and relevant. Easy to read/ use.

Love WCIYP! Fantastic book with great advice on the job search! I purchase it used, it arrived in slightly worse condition than expected. Overall, I am happy with this purchase.

Life changing read and worth the time and energy. It allows the one wanting a change to truly understand who they are, their value to an organization, their beliefs, and what they want out of life. Gives concrete steps and requires action. Hope it serves you well, if you decide to dive in!

Not a job hunting book, but a career book. You may find that you are doing what you were meant to be doing, but at least you'll know why and quit wasting time looking and fretting. Maybe you'll make some mid-course adjustments, rather than a career change. Maybe the book will cause you to do things better, with a sense of purpose. Very enlighting book.

A very useful book. Easy to read.

To be fair I didn't read through it all yet but I did glean through it having read an older version that my jerk ex husband borrowed from me and never returned. I wish he would give me my book back because this version is so disappointing compared to the old one but some parts of it does need to be updated. It's so wierd they left out a lot of parts the old one had like some resources at the end of the book and replaced it with some never ending mission of GOD theme he thinks you should be on. I believe in God still but not in people acting decent or wanting to think about anyone but themselves any more. I never expected this kind of thing to be in a job hunting book. I tried to order the old book but I wasn't sure what year it was but I picked 1995 & then Amazon claimed the book store ran out so why did they take my money? How does that happen & it was a long time before they finally told me that in a email. Now they have another 1995 one supposably but it's like $8+ more?! The flower petals exercise is one of the most important parts of the book so I started wondering if I should have just ordered the book on just the flower petals exercise that I didn't know existed before. I was so disappointed in it I've been letting it lay and collect dust. The flower petals exercise is not laid out the same way. Maybe it's a lot smaller or something but whatever it is I don't like it. He did have to much information for resources that only helped people in California in the old book but it's an idea. I think he should have done so much better it's not funny since he writes a new version every year I think. If I had any more comments I might try to do another review.

what is needed when looking for a new career

Using this as a reference for my PhD

This book is extremely comprehensive.It obviously doesn't have everything, but it gives you a very solid foundation. More than anything it gives you an extremely thorough framework for explicitly assessing your skills and interests, and inspires you think big.It gives a great starting point for your job interview skills and salary negotiation, and points to further reading.This book dares you to believe that your dream job really exists, and that you can really find it. And that alone makes it worth reading.

To sum up, this is a book on what agencies there are, how to write your CV, and also asks you questions "what do you like". I was able to ask this question myself before reading this book, thank you very much. Incredibly boring surface stuff, Mr. Bolle. Also, I am not interested and it does not help me in any way to know how you felt when you were fired.

good purchase at a reasonable price