What Color Is Your Parachute? 2020

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 completely updated edition features the latest resources strategies and perspectives on today’s job market revealing surprising advice on what works—and what doesn’t—so you can focus your efforts on tactics that yield results.  This practical manual 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 to network effectively interviewing virtually with confidence and negotiating the best salary possible.  At its core is Richard N. Bolles’s famed Flower Exercise a unique self-inventory that helps you design your career—and your life—around your key passions transferable skills traits and more. 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.