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Book Review: What Color Is Your Parachute?

Written by Richard Nelson Bolles

Topic: Career Coach and Career CoachingPublished March 6, 2008
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This book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Career Coaching. Career Coaching focuses on the needs of individuals to find fulfillment and satisfaction in their career. Many of us try to improve our lives by improving or changing careers. Gwen Jewett is the Official Guide to Career Coaching.nnWhat Color Is Your Parachute? 2008: A Practical Manual for Job-hunters and Career-Changers , by Richard Nelson Bolles, is a valuable resource for people interested in Diet and Weight Loss, and it is available through Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.

nBook Description

nWHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? is still the best-selling job-hunting book in the world. A favorite of job hunters and career changers for more than three decades, it continues to be a mainstay on best-seller lists, from Amazon.com to Business Week to the New York Times, where it has spent more than six years, and has been translated into 12 languages. The 2008 edition is an even more useful book, with its updated, inspiring, and detailed plan for changing readers' lives. With new examples, instructions, and cautionary advice, PARACHUTE is, to quote Fortune magazine, "the gold standard of career guides."n

nPublisher Description

nRICHARD NELSON BOLLES has been a leader in the career field for more than 30 years. He is former director of the National Career Development Project and an alumnus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he majored in chemical engineering; Harvard University, where he graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree in physics; and the General Theological (Episcopal) Seminary in New York City, where he earned a master's degree in New Testament studies. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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n This book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Career Coaching. The Official Guide to Career Coaching is Gwen Jewett. Gwen helps clients look not only at what they want to do next, but who they want to be while they are doing it. Having experienced the good and the bad in her own career path, Gwen brings empathy, education and wisdom to help clients navigate strategically through this process so that they come out positive, confident and fulfilled.

Additional Resources covering Career Coaching can be found at: Website Directory for Career Coaching Articles on Career Coaching Products for Career Coaching Discussion Board Gwen Jewett, the Official Guide To Career Coaching

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