What Color Is Your Parachute?

Your Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career Success

De: Richard N. Bolles

Narrado por: Sean Runnette

The groundbreaking, indispensable guide to rewarding work and a fulfilling life—more than ten million copies sold!

For more than fifty years, What Color Is Your Parachute? has transformed the way people think about job hunting. Whether searching for that first position, recovering from a layoff, or dreaming of a career change, What Color Is Your Parachute? has shown millions of people how to network effectively, compose impressive resumes and cover letters, interview with confidence, and negotiate the best possible salary—while discovering how to make their livelihood part of authentic living.

More than a job-hunting book, Richard N. Bolles’s timeless wisdom and famed self-assessment exercise clarifies seven key dimensions, so you can uncover your greatest passions, most valued traits, and transferable skills to design a life that enables you to flourish.

With the job market in constant flux, people everywhere have found that understanding who they are—what they care about, where and how they do their best work, and the most effective way to express their abilities—is the best compass to navigating an ever-changing and challenging professional landscape. It is also how their work can become part of a life filled with passion and purpose.

Using the trailblazing advice and enduring guidance of What Color Is Your Parachute?, job-hunters and career changers will have the tools to discover—and land—the work, and life, most meaningful to them.

* This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF of exercises and charts from the book.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2022 Richard N. Bolles (P)2024 Random House Audio

AI generated narration?

I’m questioning whether the narration was AI generated. I’m only on chapter 3, but I’m getting extremely annoyed by the speaker’s dictation of insanely long website links (could these just not have been added to the accompanying pdf then point listeners to that?), as well as the run on “or… or… ors.” Admittedly, I haven’t read the physical book, but I’d imagine it HAS to be better than the audio version, given its positive reviews. Praying this audio version gets better!

MISSING CHAPTER 6

As another reviewer noted, the audiobook includes the barest mention of the flower exercise and truncated chapter 6, which is the bulk of the actionable information in the print copy. I’m not about to spend $75 on the video course when I have already bought the book that should have identical content to what is in the print copy! In the very next chapter Bolles makes the bold assertion that you should not pay any employment agency and advises how to avoid all sorts of hiring scams, the irony.

Honesty and guides provided by the author

Review of "What Color Is Your Parachute?" by Richard N. Bolles

This book is very honest; it does not provide a shortcut to finding a job, but it truly gives you a reality check on the job-hunting process. It equips you with tools to consider before accepting offers. I have been working for eight years now, and before reading this book, my primary focus was finding a well-paying job. Unfortunately, 90% of the time, I found myself in unhealthy work environments because I had no clear blueprint for what I wanted—specifically, I just needed money. This book changed my perspective on what to look for when searching for a job.The author even compares job hunting to marriage, making a perfect analogy. The exercises provided, which encourage you to write down and brainstorm what you desire in a job, were quite daunting at first. It’s a bold move to say no or ask difficult questions when all you want is a job. However, this book has given me a different perspective on that area.I also appreciated how the author incorporated his views on drawing faith from God and using the job-hunting process as an opportunity for self-discovery. He emphasizes that finding a job you love should also involve finding a role that allows you to help others. I cherish the author's wisdom on kindness and love, and I will hold onto this book as it has awakened me, particularly in regard to the Christian perspective.

Where is chapter 6?

I’m wondering why they did not record chapter 6? There is an accompanying PDF worksheet for chapter 6, but it does not have the content of the chapter - it is 78 pages long and describes in detail how to do the accompanying exercises in the pdf attachment. I’m so confused!

Christianity

I was mostly enjoying it, despite an extremely boring narrator and really dry substance. I felt it was a decent overview of the job market. It was on its way to maybe a 3 star review but then the last chapter happened.

The last chapter can feel like a hard left turn, especially if you’re just there for the practical insights. It’s jarring when a book that’s mostly about career planning suddenly pivots into something that feels like a sermon. Even readers who align with those values can find it out of place in a book about navigating work and life purpose.

It’s brutish to instill a Christian message into a book about job hunting, replete with passages. It felt more like the author forcing it so that he could spread the word of Jesus. Predatory in nature because author himself admits people between jobs are vulnerable.

No downloads

This audiobook stated it comes with downloads. Without the downloads it’s impossible to gain the benefits of the book that just mentions to downloads them

Outdated!

Too basic and not current with today’s world. Waste of time. Needs major updating. Better resources exist!