Richard N. Bolles is the author of What Color Is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers, the best-selling job-hunting book of all time, having sold 10,000,000 copies to date. The book is updated every year, exists in 20 languages, and is used in 26 countries around the globe.
Parachute remains the gold standard of career guides. <br>- Fortune magazine <br> 'The Job-Hunter's Survival Guide' is slim . . . but there is nothing small about the book's job-hunting tips. <br>--McClatchy-Tribune Information Services <br> a quick and concise book. . . . And, at $9.99, it's priced to sell. <br>--Sunday New York Times <br> chock-a-block with bullet points and tips / a best-hits collection of advice...culled from his 40 years of career guidance. <br>--Tali Arbel, Watercooler Columnist, Associated Press <br> Bolles' short, sharp tome offers triage to those job seekers who may be either flummoxed with the economy or paralyzed by indecisiveness or lack of a clear path. ...his folksy, familiar style and presentation are an effective tonic for jittery nerves and chronic brain freeze. It's pretty ballsy for an author to produce something that might cannibalize sales of his other books, but this disruptive act of creative destruction is actually a b