What Color Is Your Parachute? 2021: Your Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career Success

With timeless advice, up-to-the-minute insights, and more than ten million copies sold over fifty years, the worlds most popular and best-selling career guide is fully revised and expanded for 2021. In todays challenging job-market, as recent grads face a shifting economic landscape and seek work that pays and inspires, as workers are laid off mid-career, and as people search for an inspiring work-life change, the time-tested advice of What Color Is Your Parachute? is needed more than ever. This completely updated edition features the latest resources, strategies, and perspectives on todays job market, revealing surprising advice on what worksand what doesntso you can focus your efforts on tactics that yield results. This practical manual has been fully revised for 2021 by Vanderbilt University Career Center Director Katharine Brooks, EdD, with modern advice on the job hunt strategies that are working today, such as building an online resume, making the most of social media tools to network effectively, interviewing virtually with confidence, and negotiating the best salary possible. At its core is Richard N. Bolless famed Flower Exercise, a unique self-inventory that helps you design your careerand your lifearound your key passions, transferable skills, traits, and more. With the unique and authoritative guidance of What Color Is Your Parachute?, job-hunters and career changers will have all the tools they need to discoverand landtheir dream job.