tbgstore.com is an Amazon storefront that Make Simple Online Shopping! Compare Products, Prices and Store in Just Second, Feel Free To What Color Is Your Parachute? 2009: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers  enlarge Author: Richard N. Bolles Publisher: Ten Speed Press Category: Book List Price: $18.95 Buy Used: $9.00 as of 2/9/2010 05:31 MST details You Save: $9.95 (53%) Qty 1 In Stock New (4) Used (33) from $9.00 Seller: dcrosby5292 Rating: 45 reviews Sales Rank: 12171 Media: Paperback Pages: 456 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1 Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 ISBN: 1580089305 Dewey Decimal Number: 650.14 EAN: 9781580089302 ASIN: 1580089305 Publication Date: October 1, 2008 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Tell A Friend Add to Wishlist Add to Wedding Registry Add to Baby Registry Also Available In:   •  Hardcover - What Color Is Your Parachute? 2009: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers Similar Items: What Color Is Your Parachute Workbook: How to Create a Picture of Your Ideal Job or Next Career Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success Talking from 9 to 5: Women and Men at Work Now What?: The Young Person's Guide to Choosing the Perfect Career Editorial Reviews: Product Description Still the best-selling job-hunting book in the world, WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? is the most complete guide for first-time job seekers as well as second and encore careers changers. For more than three decades, it remains 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 it has been translated into 20 languages. The 2009 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." Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 45 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...9Next » Not insightful at all, unless you are completely clueless   October 30, 2009 Ivan 5 out of 5 found this review helpful When I got laid off from my job some time ago, I though I would pick this book up to sort of get me in the mood for job searching. I have since read it and found it to be a complete disappointment and a waste of time. I think that unless you know absolutely nothing about job searching, this book will provide zero insight. It is filled with extremely obvious and generalized advice such as use as many sources to search for jobs as possible, send a thank you note after the interview, tap into your network during job search, dont talk about salary first, pursue jobs you find interesting, write down on a piece of paper things that you are good at, etc - I think you get the idea. If the book's really self-evident counsel isn't enough, it managed to annoy even further with its self-help tone that makes it sound like The Secret. To reiterate, my recommendation is to stay away from this title and not waste your money as most of the advice is very obvious and could be very easily found through a general internet search. Setting the right mindset   September 26, 2009 H. S. Seow (Melbourne, Australia) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful This book has definitely given me insight on how the job market works. As a college graduate, it is definitely important to have a good overview of what to expect during the job-hunting process. Bolles' book has provided me with tools that will be useful in when searching for my career. Most importantly, it also puts me in the right mindset- not finding a job for the sake of finding a job but to dare go for what I am passionate about and believe that things will fall into place after that. A highly recommended book for job-hunters! Eye Opener!   September 17, 2009 Rebekah Clausing 0 out of 1 found this review helpful Essential tool for anyone out there looking for a job, or wanting to change careers. Such simple material, and yet so profound, making you say to yourself 'why didn't I think of that? duh!'. Buy it. Own it. You won't regret it! Excellent!!~   September 15, 2009 Riki (Singapore) 0 out of 1 found this review helpful What Color Is Your Parachute? 2009: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers Excellent guides for mid-career changers, or finding the right job during the hard times. It briefly explained to you, how, when and where you should start from, when you are in the midst of finding the right job which suits your interest. Horrible grammar. Needlessly religious. WHY is this book so popular?   September 15, 2009 Bill M. (MA, USA) 7 out of 9 found this review helpful I heard this book recommended at a job-seeking seminar, so when I stumbled across a used copy in a book store, I bought it. The book has some good advice on job-hunting, particularly at using different avenues than the old post-resumes-to-Monster approach, and different ways to look at an interview. But over all, boy was this book a big disappointment. For starters, it reads like it was written by a 7th grader, complete with bad grammar and sentence fragments all over the place. What's worse is that the author even admits this right in the beginning of the book as a disclaimer, but insists that he's going to stand by it. Um, OK. What also completely turned me off was the needless religious angle. Now I'm not against a book tossing in a relevant Bible quote or two in the margins, or even bringing up some Biblical analogy to make a relevant point. But in addition to all of the "God" name-dropping here and there, this book as an ENTIRE CHAPTER on how to find your "mission in life", as told in a completely Christian theology perspective. What the heck is that doing in a book on job hunting, namely a book that on all outside appearances bills itself as a typically (and appropriately) secular approach to something? To this day, he still runs the same disclaimer that it's an exercise that non-Christians can do too, but he obviously never bothered to word it like that. This book is updated every year, but that's mainly to just keep up on the numerous active URLs and physical addresses it lists. After doing some comparisons between the 2009 edition and the 2002 edition that I also have, I don't see too much else changed. If this book had a competent editor who could fix the grammar, throw out the silly religious stuff, and also got rid of the other excess wording, then you could potentially make a great job/career-seeking book that would be less than half the size. The fact that the author forgoes this to publish the same crap year after year, shows that he's more about preaching than practicality. Showing reviews 1-5 of 45 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...9Next » Qty 1 In Stock

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