What Color Is Your Parachute 2020 Paperback – 10 June 2021

what is needed when looking for a new career

This best selling career handbook should be the 'go-to' book for anyone beginning or changing careers. The basic wisdom, insights, guides and models are comprehensive, relevant and useful for wading through some of the difficult parts of choosing a career. It is so natural for job seekers to just go out and apply without doing the preparation that Bolles recommends. If you ignore the suggestions provided you will hinder your success potential in a new career.

Using this as a reference for my PhD

This book is extremely comprehensive.It obviously doesn't have everything, but it gives you a very solid foundation. More than anything it gives you an extremely thorough framework for explicitly assessing your skills and interests, and inspires you think big.It gives a great starting point for your job interview skills and salary negotiation, and points to further reading.This book dares you to believe that your dream job really exists, and that you can really find it. And that alone makes it worth reading.

I found the book and the workbook to be very helpful in prompting me to consider my professional and personal life. Well worth the time invested!