What Color Is Your Parachute? 2015 is the world’s most popular job-hunting guide with more than ten million copies sold. Now, no matter what your circumstances, every job-hunter can find help with up-to-the-minute information on what has changed about the job-market, plus strategies for finding jobs even when everyone tells you there are none. And if you are a returning vet, there is a new twenty-page appendix this year, specifically addressing your unique needs.
This 2015 edition includes up-to-date research and tips about writing impressive resumes and cover letters, doing effective networking and confident interviewing, and negotiating the best salary possible. But it goes beyond that, in helping you to better know who you are, with its classic self-inventory—called “The Flower Exercise”—because the best answer to What shall I do? flows from knowing Who you are.
Chapters include:
- It's a whole new world for job-hunters
- Google is your new resume
- Sixteen tips about interviewing for a job
- Six secrets of salary negotiation
- What to do when your job-hunt just isn't working
- You get to choose where you work
- Five ways to change careers
- How to start your own business
