What Color Is Your Parachute?: Your Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career Success Bolles Richard N.

The groundbreaking, indispensable guide to rewarding work and a fulfilling life--more than ten million copies sold!For more than fifty years, What Color Is Your Parachute? Whether searching for that first position, recovering from a layoff, or dreaming of a career change, What Color Is Your Parachute? has transformed the way people think about job hunting.

Bolles's timeless wisdom and famed self-assessment exercise clarifies seven key dimensions, so you can uncover your greatest passions, most valued traits, and transferable skills to design a life that enables you to flourish.With the job market in constant flux, people everywhere have found that understanding who they are--what they care about, where and how they do their best work, and the most effective way to express their abilities--is the best compass to navigating an ever-changing and challenging professional landscape. has shown millions of readers how to network effectively, compose impressive resumes and cover letters, interview with confidence, and negotiate the best possible salary--while discovering how to make their livelihood part of authentic living.More than a job-hunting book, Richard N. It is also how their work can become part of a life filled with passion and purpose.Using the trailblazing advice and enduring guidance of What Color Is Your Parachute?, job-hunters and career changers will have the tools to discover--and land--the work, and life, most meaningful to them.