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“The new edition of the best-selling job-hunting book What Color is Your Parachute?, in addition to the
tried-and-true advice for job seekers Dick Bolles has provided for close to 40 years, has new information
on job-search productivity, job clubs, and how to organize and manage your job search. What Color is
Your Parachute? is deservedly the world’s most popular job hunting book with over 10 million copies
sold in 26 languages.
This 2011 edition is as relevant today as when it was first published. Dick Bolles insightfully stays on
the cutting edge of job-searching and the book is full of new and updated suggestions, along with the
classic advice that continues to hold true today.”
—Alison Doyle, About.com Guide
“I graduated college in 2008, wallowed hopelessly in career frustration and later received the best career
advice of my life … which was to read your book What Color Is Your Parachute? Today, I am happily
employed in [a] job that is the envy of my peers. I’m living proof of the power of your book and I
recommend it to everyone I meet. It will eternally be the gift I give to recent graduates. Thank you for
writing your book! I cannot begin to describe how much I have enjoyed it.”
—Whitney Moore
“Anyone looking for career direction advice or solid information about how to find the job that’s right for
them should begin their search with Richard Bolles’s classic book, What Color Is Your Parachute? It’s
been named one of the most influential books of all time for a reason—it has probably changed the course
of more people’s lives than almost any book except the Bible. Richard updates the book every year so it
is always relevant.”
—Eric Wentworth
“Dick Bolles is effectively the ‘inventor’ of career management as we know it today.”
—Tom O’Neil
“If you go into the bookstore and find the section on jobs, careers or networking—the reason that section
even exists is because of Dick Bolles. His book, What Color Is Your Parachute?, has helped many
people find their true passion at work. Plus he is a great man.”
—G.L. Hoffman, JobDig
“Dick Bolles is the last person on earth who needs my recommendation. Everyone knows his value to the
world of career development. My recommendation/gratitude is for his friendship. He’s a wonderful
human being, joyful, resilient, and generous.”
—Ellen Jackson
“Dick Bolles is clever, and witty and has some superb ideas.…”
—Karen Elizabeth Davies
“I want to recommend Dick for the hard work he has put in both as an author and as a coach. The amount
of influence Mr. Bolles has had on the people in career transition, such as myself when the Dot-Com
bubble burst, is immeasurable.… His sage wisdom has forever changed my life and I insist that all future
employees read the parachute book.”
—Devin Hedge
“I just wanted to tell you how grateful I am to you and your book, What Color Is Your Parachute?. I
graduated from a 4-year university in May, and I had no clue what I wanted to do, or how to look for a
job. Like any kid, I thought I knew the best way to do things and that I didn’t need anyone’s advice, but
after a few months of unemployment I realized that this wasn’t true. My dad had given me a copy of your
book, but after a few months of nothing, not even an interview, I really read it, did the exercises, and
trusted in what you were saying. I didn’t believe that I would find MY job, the perfect job for me. But I
did, at a nonprofit that does cleft lip and palate surgery missions to China and Africa. This job has
literally every single attribute that I listed, and I wouldn’t have known what attributes I needed in a job
unless I had done your exercises. I’m sure you get probably hundreds of emails a week saying the same
thing, so I’ll keep it short—I just wanted to say that I owe my happiness in my job to you and my dad. I
recommend your book to EVERYONE, including strangers.”
—Heather Smith
“How can any of us in the career and employment industry not only recommend Dick, but … thank him
(and the Good Lord) for single-handedly creating the industry we love and cherish? I know, for sure, I
would not be where I am today if Dick and his parachute hadn’t led the way. No, What Color is Your
Parachute? is not the Bible. But it may be a distant second. :-) I know I speak for every single person
who works in the career/employment industry when I say …‘THANK YOU, DICK’ for all you’ve done.
You are one of those very few people who truly are ‘a legend in your own time.’ ”
—Jay Block
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v3.1
The wonderful actress
Anne Bancroft (1931–2005) was once
loosely quoted as saying
about her husband, Mel Brooks,
My heart flutters whenever I hear his key
turning in the door, and I think to myself,
Oh goody, the party is about to begin.
That is exactly how I feel
about my wife,
Marci Garcia Mendoza Bolles,
God’s angel from the Philippines,
whom I fell deeply in love with, and married
on August 22, 2004.
What an enchanted marriage this is!
The 2012
Table of Contents
Preface: The 40th Anniversary Edition of This Book
Grammar and Language Note
INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1: How to Find Hope
Chapter 2: Survival Skills You Most Need in Today’s World
I. ATTITUDES NECESSARY FOR SURVIVAL
Chapter 3: The Three Attitudes Necessary for Survival
Chapter 4: How to Deal with Handicaps
II. ADVANCED JOB-FINDING TECHNIQUES
Chapter 5: The Best and Worst Ways to Look for Those Job Vacancies That Are Out There
Chapter 6: Do I Really Need a Resume?
Chapter 7: Networking in This Age of Social Media
Chapter 8: Sixteen Tips About Interviewing
Chapter 9: The Six Secrets of Salary Negotiation
III. ADVANCED JOB-CREATION TECHNIQUES
Chapter 10: Starting Your Own Business
Chapter 11: Being Inventive Is Key to Survival
Chapter 12: How to Choose a New Career
IV. INVENTORY OF WHAT YOU HAVE TO OFFER THE WORLD
Chapter 13: Self-Inventory (The Flower Exercise)
WHAT skills do you most enjoy using?
WHERE do you want to use those skills?
HOW do you find the name of that kind of job (or jobs)?
V. EACH ONE TEACH ONE
Chapter 14: Teaching Survival Job-Hunting to Others
THE PINK PAGES
Appendix A: Finding Your Mission in Life
Appendix B: A Guide to Dealing with Unemployment Depression
Appendix C: A Guide to Choosing a Career Coach or Counselor
Appendix D: Sampler List of Coaches
About the Author
Index
Update 2012
Foreign Editions
Additional Helpful Resources from the Author
BOOKS
WORKSHOPS
ONLINE COURSE
Preface: The 40th Anniversary Edition of This Book
June 13, 2011
In the midst of these annual revisions, it’s time to pause for a moment and celebrate. Forty years! Yes. For
forty years, so far, I’ve been writing, updating, and revising this book, every year. Well, I did miss one
year—1975. But otherwise, every year.
It’s been more of a journal, than a book. A journal kept so far for forty years. New entries, new ideas,
new events, every year. I often joke with people, when they ask how many books I’ve written over the
years. The correct answer is ten. But, thinking only of Parachute, I say, “Forty—all with the same title,
though different inside.”
The basic core has stayed the same since the beginning: Where do you go from here with your life?
The answer to that has always boiled down to answering just three questions, and they have remained the
same these forty years: WHAT, WHERE, and HOW. ( WHAT are your favorite transferable skills?
WHERE would you most like to be able to use those skills? And HOW do you find the name or names of
that job, and the places that have such jobs, and the people with the power to hire you?) But around that
core have spun dozens of new developments, year after year, like planets in orbit around the sun.
A writer’s dilemma is easily stated: how much is too much information? How much is too little? I think
there is too much information floating around out there—particularly on the Internet—and if you try to
include it all, the book turns into hundreds of pages. So my responsibility is to sift it down, and talk only
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