What Color Is Your Parachute?
A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters & Career-Changers
by
Richard Nelson Bolles
"What Color Is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and
Career-Changers" is the best-selling job-hunting and career-changing book in
the world. Twenty thousand people buy the book each month, and there are
more than 8 million copies in print. In its lifetime, it has been on the New
York Times Best-Seller List (paperback) a total of 288 weeks.
The author coined the word "parachute" to mean career transitions, back in
1968 when people commonly said, "Well, I'm tired of this job - - I'm going
to bail out?" Bolles' playful rejoinder at that time: What color is your
parachute? It later became the title of the book.
A writer for Life Magazine said that the phrase "golden parachutes" appeared
for the first time a decade or more later, as a "play" on this book's title.
In fact, a number of common phrases in our culture: "golden parachutes,"
"informational interviewing," "transferable skills" etc., were all born out
of this book.
Please Understand Me II:
Temperament, Character, Intelligence
by David Keirsey
Please Understand Me II begins with The Keirsey Temperament Sorter, the most
used personality inventory in the world. The Sorter renders a type indicator
that leads to information that is extremely valuable for writing a personal
profile on your resume.
The bad old days
of multiple-choice-test career counseling are over. It takes more than a #2
pencil and a computer to find your life's work, as career
consultant Laurence G. Boldt tells us in Zen and the Art of Making a Living,
a hefty but lighthearted tome that will help you find yourself and your place in the
world. Boldt is quite up-front about it,
though: it's a long, hard journey
to get there. But his uplifting prose and liberal doses of inspirational
quotes from wise men and women provide support for the weary traveler.
Indeed, in between learning how to find the kind of work that strikes the
right chord for you, figuring out what skills and talents you'll need to
succeed at it, and righteously persisting until you get your reward, you may
find lapses and stumbling blocks you hadn't expected--but Boldt has seen
them all and finds the right words at the right time to keep you moving.
Like a traditional career book, Zen and the Art of Making a Living includes
résuméadvice and worksheets for narrowing down and sticking with your
goals; however, it takes off from there to guide the reader on a quest for
spiritual fulfillment through work, something you won't find elsewhere. This
updated edition contains plenty of Internet-related information and other
resources unavailable in 1990 and is invaluable for anyone concerned about
his or her future in the world of work. --Rob Lightner
You loved the comic
strip; now read the business advice. Or should that be anti-business advice?
Scott Adams provides the hapless victim of re-engineering, rightsizing and Total
Quality Management some strategies for fighting back, er, coping. Forced to work
long hours, with no hope of a raise? Adams offers tips on maintaining parity in
compensation.
Along the way, Adams
explains what ISO 9000 really is and assesses the irresistibility of female
engineers.
The breath-taking
cynicism of the strip should prepare readers for the author's no-holds-barred
attack on management fads, large organizations, pointless bureaucracy and
sadistic rule-makers who glory in control of office supplies. Readers of the
on-line Dilbert Newsletter are familiar with the kind of e-mail Adams receives
from his readers -- and may even have sent a few of those missives themselves.
Along with illustrative strips, e-mail messages provide excruciating examples of
corporate behavior which compel the reader to agree with Adams when he insists
that "People are idiots".
The final chapter
offers a model for would-be successful businesses to follow: the OA5 model. It's
introduced with little fanfare, no outrageous promises and just the right amount
of self-deprecation. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable
edition of this title.
Job Hunting For Dummies is a remarkably versatile book. It holds your hand
through the arduous and terrifying process of job-seeking, and offers valuable
insights relating to résumés, interviews, and networking, effectively playing
the roles of mother, pal, spouse, and guidance counselor, without ever losing
its temper or asking when you're finally going to land a job.
Max Messmer is eminently qualified to instruct on
all things job-related. He's chairman and CEO of Robert Half International Inc.,
the world's largest
specialized staffing firm, and he's penned numerous articles, columns, and books
(such as The Fast Forward MBA in Hiring and Staffing Europe), so Messmer knows a
thing or two about how to apply for a job effectively, and he has a few words to
say on how not to blow it, too.
He knows, for instance, how overwhelming and intimidating the job hunt can
be, and how useful it is to break the monster down into prioritized, bite-sized
tasks. There are detailed chapters on organizing, setting targets, and scoping
out the field, plus essential chapters on writing a résuméand cover letter that
present you in the best light, pursuing job leads, and performing well in the
interview spotlight.
Messmer's experience in the field makes his advice reliable. You know that
when he suggests how to research a company before the interview so you are
somewhat knowledgeable about what they do, and when he warns against pink
résumés and sarcastic cover letters, he's offering the collective opinion of
hundreds of staffing professionals. It's advice worth reading, no matter how
qualified you already are to do the job once you get it. The only misleading
aspect of Job Hunting for Dummies is the title, because no dummy would do
something so smart as to increase his or her application advantage by reading
Max Messmer's book. - Stephanie Gold
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