What Color Is Your Parachute? for College: Pave Your Path from Major to Meaningful Work

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Katharine Edd Brooks

What Color Is Your Parachute? for College

Pave Your Path from Major to Meaningful Work

Katharine Edd Brooks

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Ten Speed Press
02 July 2021

Education

A modern guide for students on how to choose a major, create a four-year plan, make the most of your college experience, land an internship, and successfully secure your first job.

An indispensable guide for college students, adapted from the world's most popular and bestselling career book, What Color Is Your Parachute?

What Color Is Your Parachute? for College is the only guide you need for making the most of your college career from start to finish. Based on the bestselling job-hunting system in the world, created by Richard N. Bolles, it covers deciding on a major, designing a four-year plan with your interests and values in mind, creating impactful social media, developing a resume that stands out in a crowd, and making invaluable connections to the workplace.

Filled with introspective activities designed to bring out your unique skills and knowledge for interviews, resumes, and cover letters, this book provides easy-to-follow templates, rubrics, and lists to help you create the best possible social media platform, including LinkedIn.

You'll discover how to leverage your skills and experiences throughout college to start your future-whether that means landing a meaningful internship (and making the most of it!), finding your first job, continuing on to graduate school, or taking a gap year.

Whatever your future plans, What Color Is Your Parachute? for College will get you there.

By: Katharine Edd Brooks
Imprint: Ten Speed Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 139mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 323g
ISBN: 9781984857569
ISBN 10: 1984857568
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 02 July 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Katharine Brooks, EdD, is an award-winning, nationally certified counselor and career coach who is currently the Evans Family Executive Director of the Career Center for Vanderbilt university. She has also directed career centers at The University of Texas at Austin, Wake Forest university, and Dickinson College. She is the author of You Majored in What? Designing Your Path From College to Career and co-author of What Color Is Your Parachute? 2021. She writes a blog, Career Transitions, for Psychology Today.