What Color is Your Parachute?: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters & Career-Changers Paperback - 1998

From the publisher

For over 25 years, Parachute has been the best-selling job-hunting book in the world, now with over 6 million copies in print. From the very beginning it has been revised annually to keep up with changing times and a changing job market, and as things change ever more quickly (particularly, of course, with the Internet and all that it's meant to the business world) this becomes more and more important. Recently, the book was more dramatically revised than ever before -- splitting into two books in one binding, to address the needs of job-hunters in an even more useful package.

This year's edition has the same innovative device, making the 560-page length unprecedentedly user-friendly. These essential things that every job-hunter or career-changer must know -- figuring out what it is you really want to do, and getting the perfect job in the most expedient way possible -- are still found in the first volume, called, as ever, "What Color Is Your Parachute".

The optional things that are useful to many but not all readers -- job-hunting on the Internet (newly revised with up-to-the-minute information on URLs and more), finding one's mission in life, relocating for a job, even dealing with depression -- are now found in the new bound-in second volume, titled The Parachute Workbook And Resource Guide.

We've heard from a lot of readers about this new format, and what they say is ... it works! Readers in a hurry can get what they need and get going towards the job of their dreams, while those with special needs or interests can find help easily. To further aid the reader in a real hurry (if, say, the interview is scheduled for tomorrow morning!), this edition once again begins with athree-chapter overview called For the Impatient Job-Hunter, a "summary of everything" that can jump-start a career in no time flat. Other popular returning sections are an enlarged and expanded section on the Internet, and the exercises and resources that have made this book the indispensable classic on the subject. With all this to offer, it's little wonder that Parachute is bought by 24,000 readers a month.

The author: In the field of job-hunting and career-change, Richard Nelson Belies is the most widely read and influential leader in the world. Something of an Renaissance. Man, he is a member of Mensa, an alumnus of Harvard (in physic), M.I.T. (In chemical engineering), and General (Episcopal) Seminary (in sacred theology). He is listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World. He resides with his family in the San Francisco Bay Area.