{"product_id":"what-color-is-your-parachute-job-hunters-workbook-sixth-editionisbn-9781984858269","title":"What Color Is Your Parachute? Job-Hunter's Workbook, Sixth Edition","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn interactive companion to the world’s most popular job-search book, updated for 2021, that helps you translate your personal interests into marketable job skills.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis fill-in workbook for the career classic \u003ci\u003eWhat Color Is Your Parachute?\u003c\/i\u003e is a helpful tool for recent grads, workers laid off mid-career, and anyone searching for an inspiring work-life change. Featuring \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e•\u003c\/b\u003e  New information that addresses the job-market in the pandemic era\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e•\u003c\/b\u003e  The Flower Exercise that gets everything about your skills and preferences in one place\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e•\u003c\/b\u003e  The Party Exercise to help you discover who you work best with\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e•\u003c\/b\u003e  The Transferable Skills Grid that helps you discover your most valuable skills\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eand more of Richard N. Bolles's helpful charts and activities, this workbook allows job-hunters to roll up their sleeves and discover how their unique interests, passions, and dreams will give them, once completed, a picture of their dream job.\u003cb\u003eRichard N. Bolles\u003c\/b\u003e led the job-search field for more than forty years. A member of Mensa and the Society for Human Resource Management, he served as the keynote speaker at hundreds of conferences. Bolles held a bachelor's degree cum laude in physics from Harvard University, a master's degree from General Theological (Episcopal) Seminary in New York City, and three honorary doctorates.\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Parachute Approach demands that you do an inventory of who you are and what you love to do, before you set out on your search for (meaningful) work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeing out of work, or thinking about a new job or career, should speak to your heart. It should say something like this:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUse this opportunity. Make this not only a hunt for a job, but a hunt for a life. A deeper life, a victorious life, a life you’re prouder of.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe world currently is filled with workers whose weeklong cry is, “When is the weekend going to be here?” And, then, “Thank God it’s Friday!” Their work puts bread on the table but . . . they are bored out of their minds. They’ve never taken the time to think out what they uniquely can do, and what they uniquely have to offer to the world. The world doesn’t need any more bored workers. Dream a little. Dream a lot.","brand":"Ten Speed Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305166328037,"sku":"NP9781984858269","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781984858269.jpg?v=1730759605","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/what-color-is-your-parachute-job-hunters-workbook-sixth-editionisbn-9781984858269","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}