What Color Is Your Parachute? 2009:
A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters
and Career-Changers by Richard N.
Bolles
If You've Been Laid Off, Get This Book!
The #1 best-selling career book of all time, revised and updated to keep
pace with todays ever-changing job market.
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. Visit the What Color Is Your Parachute? JOB-HUNTERS
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CBS-5 Job seekers, dont despair. Richard Bolles is on your side. At 81,
his lifes work has been about how to find a job. And not just any job, but
the career of your dreams. Even in a recession.—Sacramento Bee Chock-
full of revisions and tips relevant to todays circumstances.—San Francisco
Chronicle Parachute remains the most complete career guide around . . .
It covers all the ground less ambitious guides do, as well as some the
others dont, mostly in the realm of the psyche. —Barbara Presley Noble,
New York Times “Find success in your job search by picking up a copy
of What Color Is Your Parachute?”—Complete Woman Its a Wonderful Life
isnt the only classic people will be enjoying this holiday season. Many folks
—actually, tens of thousands...—will find a copy of a classic career
planning book under the tree...What Color Is Your Parachute?...has been
around so long we forget the author...helped define not only an industry,
but a national perspective. —St. Paul Pioneer Press as featured in Amy
Lindgrens syndicated career column. “A career-advice juggernaut. The
best-selling career guide in history, Parachute has sold over nine million
copies, spawned a number of ancillary books (including editions for teens
and retirees), and was named by the Library of Congress as one of the 25
books that have shaped readers lives—putting Bolles in the company of
Malcolm X, Robert Louis Stevenson and God, whose own Bible is a
perennial bestseller.” —New York Post “The 2008 edition is full of new
suggestions, along with the classic advice that continues to hold true
today.” —About.coms Job Searching Site
Testimonials for What Color is Your Parachute?
“I have three Guerrilla books on Amazon best-seller lists of one
kind or another, but none are as high quality as Parachute. Hardly anything
ever is.” —Jay Conrad Levinson, author of Guerrilla Marketing
“Youve done it again (for me)! Using Parachute, Ive landed (1) a super job
in an Insanely Great company doing wonderful things and (2) spring-
boarded into an even better position just one year later within the same
company doing exactly what Ive always dreamed of. Make another notch
in your book binding (or wherever you keep track of these things) because
youve made me a runaway success. Kudos to you and all you continue to

do for the job hunter/career changer!” —Jon Copeland, Executive Briefing
Center, Apple, Inc.
“I am a U.S. Marine serving in Iraq…I have recently finished What Color is
Your Parachute?, and I was pleasantly surprised how much I learned
about myself. I was also grateful to learn that sending out resumes is not
the least effective way to get my dream job…Thank you for your book and
your time.” —Roger D. Huffstetler, Jr., Cherryville, NC
“Two years ago I bought your book on a whim as I was feeling very sorry
for myself, career-wise, and was looking for anything that would help…
After going through the exercises I realized that teaching is what I should
be doing for a living. My first interview after reading the book was for a job
installing computers in centres for people with learning difficulties. At the
interview I talked about the skills which the book made me realise I had. I
was no longer saying what I thought the interviewer wanted me to say, but
what I genuinely felt. I was offered and I accepted the job, which I later
found out over 270 people applied for…I just wanted to say thank you for
all the help your book gave me and I hope it continues to help others.” —
Kevin Hickey, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
“First of all my appreciate [sic] of the book What Color is Your Parachute. I
have worked through it alone and then decided to join the seminar of John
Webb. It changed my life! I started to realize my dreams and I found the
happiness I have always been searching for. Now Id like to share my
experiences with many other people. It can be so easy to find happiness, if
you know how.” —Tanja Korten, Köln, Germany
“I have bought four Parachutes of approximately 1986, 1990, 1996, and
1999 vintages…Your book remains inspirational—even after re-reading
over the years. I recommend your book to all job hunters and college
graduates I know.” —Nigel Yeung, Singapore
“I have been awarded a 10-year contract with the Miami-Dade County
Public School System and will be bringing the first Charter Middle School
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many schools for I am up to transforming the educational system ion the

State of Florida wherever else I can. Once again, thank you, thank you,
your work and generosity…will always be with me.” —Gladys
Palacio, Miami, FL
“I just wanted to thank you and let you know that your book and website
have helped me tremendously in preparing for my career (I just graduated
from the university). It is from you that I learned how and where to get an
effective resume done…It is from you that I came in contact with an
outstanding career coach...People like you who do good things deserve
praise and blessing.” —Saagar Prajapati
“Your book What Color is Your Parachute? had a major influence on my
life back in the early 80s…as a result of WCIYP and The Three Boxes of
Life I was inspired to attend the University of Oregon College of Human
Development and Performance and received a B.S. in Leisure Studies and
Services (1985). Today at age 48 my career path has led me [to become]
a Recreation Specialist for the Department of Defense for 15 years to
military bases around the world…Id like to say THANK YOU VERY MUCH
for your contributions towards enhancing the quality of life for me and my
family.” —Doug Buell, Portland, OR
“Your book made a big difference in our lives. My husband went through all
the exercises in the 70s, made a drastic career change (from engineering
to public accounting), we moved to Florida from New York State, and
ended up in the Peace Corps. Now we are contemplating retirement and it
seems to me that some of the principles in your career books might work in
retirement. Retirement is much more daunting than a career change, so
please write a What Color is Your Hot Air Balloon as You Sail Into
Retirement book!” —Marcia Nielson, Tequesta, FL
“Hello! I was first introduced to your book by a friend who knew I was
unhappy in my work. I completed it as directed and it literally changed my
life. I took steps to pursue a career in something I love—training—and now
find myself in the role of assisting others in making career/job choices!”
—Faith She
Personal Review: What Color Is Your Parachute? 2009: A
Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers by
Richard N. Bolles
One item I would add to this book (in Chapter Three, "Five Best Ways to
Hunt for a Job," begins on p. 27) is a section that covers how to find jobs

that involve you doing someone else's job while the someone else does
nothing. For lack of a better term, there are so many "secondhand car
salesmen" out there occupying jobs in which they are not being productive
-- e.g., workers who are unwilling to work, or who are incompetent or lazy
(same thing), who constantly baffle their bosses with you-know-what as
they do nothing all day -- making it relatively easy to place yourself in a
position in which you fill a vacuum (think "Wally" in that famous cubicle
comic strip; god, would I love to do all the things he's supposed to be doing
and get paid for the effort). I've even had a number of jobs since retiring
from the military in which I was hired by a manager who needed or wanted
me to do her or his job in her or his stead. Another time I was hired to do a
soldier's job because the soldier (who had a college degree) just couldn't
seem to bring herself to do her job: OK by me because it meant I had a job
that involved working 8 hours a day for a paycheck. Filling vacuums
created by folk as described above can also place you in a good spot
come report card day and/or if a new wave of layoffs hit.
Another great job-seekers technique is to be proactive with a back-up plan.
Develop other skills while you're stuck unhappy as all get-out in a particular
job, on the off chance that you'll lose your job.
Last quick tip is to read Parachute with an open mind. Just because it says
a method is the A No.1 way to land a new job, that doesn't mean one of
the lesser ways won't work for you. There's on ongoing recession, and yet
I know of a jet airplane mechanic who just got back into his field after being
laid off, by visiting his local airport to drop off handfuls of resumes.
Parachute says that method is least successful, but it just worked.
Rephrased, if you're not doing everything in your power to become
employed, you're probably not trying hard enough.
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