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Summary: Too fluffy
Review: This book has some interesting material, but is spaced out so much. It is too chatty, too religious. It should be brief and concise, then people would have a realistic chance of reading it all.
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Summary: The book for discovering your career mission and passion.
Review: Mr. Bolles continues to provide "just in time" career information for individuals to explore and understand viable new career directions. PARACHUTE is required reading for individuals and career counselors involved in creating balance through work, leisure, learning and family - life work planning. The world of work continues to change and so does PARACHUTE. Published new each year, this book is a must for individuals concerned with continuous learning and fulfillment improvement. PARACHUTE is the premiere, most complete realistic method of linking the individual to the world of work. It is a simple, easy, fun guidebook for life planning and should be a part of every individuals YEARLY reading list. Miss reading PARACHUTE - miss an opportunity to design your own career fit! The 1999 PARACHUTE is a guide to one's future.--- LKK -- National Certified Counselor / Development Specialist
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Summary: Once again Parachute delivers
Review: What Color is Your Parachute? is the closest thing job hunters have to a "State of the Union" address. Where else can a reader go year in and year out to find pertinent facts about the current state of the world of work? I have grown to rely on this book to give me up-to-date facts about how to best find a job. The 1999 edition is particularly helpful because it combines the best of the old with the best of the new. Dick Bolles is first and formost a suberb coomunicator. He reads and incorporates the new ideas he gathers annually from his readers. While doing that he also sticks to basic principles. For over 25 years the basic message of this book has remained the same. There is work that will fulfill you and allow you to earn a living. Doing your homework is as important in the job hunt as it was in school. There are no short cuts. This message is as relavent in 1999 as it has ever been. The 1999 edition has brevity for those desire it, facts galore, humor, and a kind and helpful tone. It remains the standard for jobhunters of all ages.
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Summary: A useful book, but other works cover the subject better.
Review: Generally the book contains some useful advice, but I found the style intensely irritating and I have read other books that deal with the same basic material in a far less annoying manner. If gratuitous pictures and diagrams, a load of go-getting over-the top positive spin and plenty about God are your scene, buy this book. If you're an educated adult agnostic, try something else.
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Summary: Please leave religion out of it....
Review: I just bought the book. Thumbing through, it appears to be the excellent career guidance tool that it has a long held reputation to be.However, I have noticed several Christian religous references that I feel aren't appropriate for the intended subject matter. These references make me uncomfortable, despite the fact that I am not Christian (no offense is intended to anyone). I bought Parachute to help sort out career change issues, not to be preached to. Granted the author can include anything he wants in his text, and I can choose not to read it. But why not stick to the topic and save the preaching for another book?
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Summary: Do not give it to students graduating from college.
Review: This book is useful if you are middle aged and unemployed, but not for a graduating college student looking for an entry level job into a specific career.
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Summary: The Best of it's Kind!
Review: What Color is Your Parachute?... Nervous about your upcoming job interview? 'Parachute's' truths about interviews will ease your anxiety and give you the confidence to dazzle your prospective employer. This classic guide will help you to identify your skills and accentuate them to get your dream job, whether you're going for the mainstream workplace or into self employment. I got what I needed from this book the first time I opened it! Everyone should own this book throught their working years.
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Summary: a DIFFERENT approach to job hunting
Review: I used this book some years ago to help me change my career and got excellent results. This book helped me sharpen my vague ideas about what I can do and helped me zero in on the right job for me. It was great to find a job I enjoyed so much and engaged my favorite tallents. Now, years later, I turn to Parachute again and find it is smaller and more focused but essentially still delivering the same message and encouragement -- define what you really want to do and do the research -- there is a job out there that is just perfect for you.
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Summary: Too much religion
Review: This book should carry a warning label "Prepare to be bombarded with Christianity!" I bought this book in hopes that it would live up to its reputation unfortunately I'm not sure I'm going to be able to gain any benefit from it because of wading through all of the religion the author forced into the book.
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Summary: Slimmed down, but still tops
Review: Although Bolles cut the number of pages in this new Parachute by almost 40 percent, the book is even better than before -- I guess 500+ pages were too many for most job seekers to read. These cuts resulted in Mr. Bolles narrowing down his recommendations of job search resources to the ones that really help -- including on page 108, the "Professional's Job Finder," "Government Job Finder," and "Non-Profits & Education Job Finder" which, between the three of them, get us job seekers to over 6,000 sources of job vacancies in print and on the Internet. They're great companions to Parachute. Thank you Mr. Bolles, for pointing them out to me and setting my job search in the right direction.
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