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| Title: | What Color is your Parachute | ||||
| Author: | Richard Nelson Bolles is a member of Mensa and a renowned public speaker. | ||||
| Category: | Career | ||||
| What the book is about: | |||||
| This annually reviewed American book is a practical manual for job hunters and career changers.This is primarily a reference book that gives a variety of tools and exercises to assist you in choosing a career direction.It provides practical ways to achieve changes in your current employment situation including sections on ways to hunt for a job, dealing with handicaps, resumes, interviews and salary negotiations.
The annual updates are primarily to include new resources that are continually becoming available as technology and industries progress. The tools in the book are designed not just for job searching but to help you decide on deeper decisions such as your mission in life. |
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| Would I buy this book: |
NO |
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| Rather than buying this new I would get this out of the library as it is updated annually. Even a serial career changer would benefit from working with an up to date version | |||||
| What I liked about this book: | |||||
| Very Comprehensive including some very useful exercises for defining your goals.Because it is updated annually second hand book shops and charity shops are usually good sources of historical copies of the book. I have to confess to owning older versions of this book myself as the basic principles provide a good foundation for career guidance. | |||||
| What I thought could have been improved in this book: | |||||
| Although there is an index at the back I would have preferred a more detailed contents section. The contents Headings cover blocks of thirty to forty pages at a time which doesn’t make rapid searches for information very rapid. | |||||
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| Where available: | |||||
| http://www.fishpond.co.nz/ | |||||
| www.thenile.co.nz | |||||
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