Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #45212 in Books
• Published on: 2008-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 456 pages

Synopsis
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

looking for a job or career change - you MUST read this
I came across this book about 15 years ago by chance. I had just had a job interview which went well, so I thought, and I found this book on sale at Waterstones. I didn't get the job but I did buy the book and I read it from cover to cover and did all the exercises. At the end of the book after completing the exercises I had a real idea of the area I should be looking for a job in. At that time it was working in property for a University. By coincidence (or was it fate) that following weekend my local University advertised a job for Head of Property. I got it and the rest is history.

Its funny that you tend to believe that you have to follow jobs which you an society indicate are right. This book helps you to think freely, chuck out the bull, and find the job thats right for you.

Over the past 10 years I have bought the book for 4 unemployed friends and all have benefitted.

What can you lose by buying the book? Nothing but the cover price in my view.

Disappointment
I bought this book as it was recommended but it was a real disappointment.

Clearly aimed at the US market (although this wasn't made clear on the pre-sales material) much of it was therefore not appropriate for the UK market. In addition, whilst it's logic was pretty sound, as a practical guide it was not very good atall. There are, in my opinion, far better books on the market that cover similar ground but in a much more practical fashion.

The only good news was that as usual the Amazon delivery service was spot on so I received the book in a timely enough fashion to correct my purchase mistake with a better alternative!

First aid for victims of the recession.
This book is designed to restore your self-confidence and help you to understand what you are good at. It includes a detailed analytical procedure which helps you to decide what you want to do with your life, and how you should go about achieving your objective. The style is a bit American and over-emphatic at times, but it is packed with priceless nuggets of information such as "When negotiating salary, whoever mentions an actual figure first generally loses."