As Fortune Magazine writer Anne Fisher points out on the back cover, this book should be read for the first time when you're fifteen and "again every year thereafter." Extremely practical and useful, the book walks you through many seemingly difficult aspects of a big job hunt, including getting over the assumption that time spent at home with kids is a handicap.
Bolles is an international expert at getting people out of their job search rut and the book is chock full of eye opening myth busters. How many of us think sending out a perfect resume to every company we're interested in is the best way to score a job? According to statistics listed in the book, that method has only a 7% success rate. Do you think you're too experienced to cold-call companies listed in the Yellow Pages to ask if they're hiring? Statistics say 67% of people who use this method of job search have success.
Reading the book can stop you from wasteful job hunting strategies and remind you of some fundamental truths that are easy to forget after a few kids and a crummy marriage - like what to say, and how long to take saying it, in a job interview. Beautifully written and religiously updated, it's more than a manual, it's actually a pep talk - ideal for those of us just entering single motherhood and starting back to work. It can become your companion, your great friend, and for twenty or so bucks, that's a steal. Read the book, be empowered, be employed.
What Color Is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers by Richard Nelson Bolles; Ten Speed Press; Berkeley; 2007; $22.95 CDN
A Printer's Workshop by Abraham Bosse; courtesy Web Gallery of Art
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