What Colour Is Your Parachute? 2021: Your Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career Success, Dec/2020

ABOUT WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? 2021

With timeless advice, up-to-the-minute insights, and more than ten million copies sold over fifty years, the world’s most popular and best-selling career guide is fully revised and expanded for 2021.

In today’s challenging job-market, as recent grads face a shifting economic landscape and seek work that pays and inspires, as workers are laid off mid-career, and as people search for an inspiring work-life change, the time-tested advice of What Color Is Your Parachute? is needed more than ever.

This new edition has been fully revised for 2021 by Vanderbilt University Career Center Director Katharine Brooks, EdD, with modern advice on the job hunt strategies that are working today, such as building an online resume, making the most of social media tools, and acing Skype interviews. Building on the wisdom of original author Richard N. Bolles, this edition updates the famed Flower Exercise (which walks job seekers through the seven ways of thinking about themselves) and demystifies the entire job-search process, from writing resumes to interviewing and networking.

With the unique and authoritative guidance of What Color Is Your Parachute?, job-hunters and career changers will have all the tools they need to discover–and land–their dream job.

About the Authors:

Richard N. Bolles has led the career development field for more than 40 years. A member of Mensa and the Society for Human Resource Management, he has been the keynote speaker at hundreds of conferences. Bolles was trained in chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and holds a bachelor’s degree cum laude in physics from Harvard University, a master’s in sacred theology from General Theological (Episcopal) Seminary in New York City, and three honorary doctorates. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Marci. Visit jobhuntersbible.com.

Katharine Brooks, EdD, is the Evans Family Executive Director of the Career Center at Vanderbilt University. Prior to Vanderbilt, she was the executive director of the office of personal and career development at Wake Forest University, director of career services for the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas in Austin, and director of career services at Dickinson College, where she also taught courses on psychology. She is a licensed professional counselor, a nationally certified counselor, and a board certified coach. She provides career coaching and counseling to college students as well as alumni of all ages who are transitioning into new careers, or even retirement. She is the author of You Majored in What? Designing Your Path from College to Career and writes a blog, “Career Transitions,” for Psychology Today.