What Color is your Parachute? Guide to Job-Hunting Online

by Richard Nelson Bolles, Mark Emery Bolles

Before you start your Internet job-hunt, there are some things that you "must" know, like:
- Why are job sites like Monster and CareerBuilder so stunningly ineffective?
- What can you do to make sure your resumes survive the elimination process?
- How do you find the information that search engines like Google can't?
- How can you tell the difference between a genuinely helpful job board, and a website designed only to collect resumes?
- When are hobby forums more helpful than business networking sites?
- When is the Internet not helpful when job-hunting?
- What is the fatal flaw of "all "social networking sites?
The "Guide to Job-Hunting Online, 6th Edition," not only answers these questions and many more, but shows you how to comprehensively and effectively use the Internet for all aspects of your job-hunt.
This companion to "What Color Is Your Parachute?," the best-selling job-hunting book in the world, has been completely rewritten for our changing times and includes hundreds of updated website recommendations and descriptions. The "Guide to Job-Hunting Online" shows you how to quickly find the data that will be most helpful to you, how to identify and research the places where you will most enjoy working, how to leverage the power of social networking sites, and how to use your Internet time most effectively, avoiding the common pitfalls and setting you up for success.

Genres: Nonfiction, Reference, Self Help, Business

ebook

First published May 17, 2011

About the author

Dick Bolles, more formally known as Richard Nelson Bolles, was a former Episcopal clergyman, a member of high-IQ society Mensa, and the author of the best-selling job-hunting book, What Color is Your Parachute? The book remained on The New York Times best-seller list for more than a decade and has sold over 10 million copies.

Reviews

[Reader · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent guidebook!! It'd cleared so many confusions and mistakes I have been doing for the last few months while looking for the perfect job! A lot of worksheets, suggestions, examples, etc. has been given by the writer and I HIGHLY RECOMMEND it to those who are looking for jobs.

[Michael Leonard · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book feels more like a laid back conversation than a resource for job hunting and it's about a decade old but still very helpful.

[Emily]

Info is now pretty outdated but contains helpful general info and several useful links. Beware that many links (including the book's 'companion' website) are broken now.

[Erin · Rating 1 out of 5]

Perhaps quite useful if you are new to technology and genuinely need someone to explain how to use Google or what blogs and forums are.

If you've ever used a computer, this book is utterly useless. It's kind of like being stuck with your old uncle who heard you were looking for a job, and trapped you into a conversation in which he says things like "You ever heard of a tag cloud? Man those things are neat!" and "Are you on the Twitter?"

[P · Rating 2 out of 5]

- 2013 edition
- Certainly not your average career advice book
- Lots of different content that speaks to different aspects of job search
- I guess I should stop thinking there's a holy grail book that will solve all of my problems
- Didn't find the exercises that useful but that could be because I don't work well on things like that on my own. Might be good in a one-on-one workshop setting
- Probably a good reference book for phrases on how to frame things to employers

[Libby]

Some good suggestions, but not quite current anymore. Interesting read, I found it motivating to get out there and be more pro-active in my job hunt, rather than just perusing the job boards, but definitely not many answers in here. It's tough because it's such a generic book and different industries / careers are so different with how their recruit.

[Lila · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great tips delivered with humor. It is always good to keep up with current trends in job-hunting whether you are actively or passively exploring opportunities. The worl changes so quickly! The best part is the on-line resource for the book that lists the many, many websites in one convenient place.

[TRACY · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thought it was a really useful book to guide you in understanding your skill set, what you like in terms of subjects, as well as your traits. I might not have had a ta da moment of this is the perfect job for me, but it has certainly identified common threads which I can now develop and explore further. The book was the third edition job-hunters workbook.

[Kelsey · Rating 5 out of 5]

So much good information can make this book hard to get through. There's little in terms of solutions but lots in terms of where to go next. There's no easy way to search for a job. There's no magical solution. But this book gives you tons of great starting points!

[Jt · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book offers great sources and good direction on how to go about a job search online. It would have been better in some cases, however, if they had simply written the information contained in online articles rather than offering links.

[Heather · Rating 1 out of 5]

Yep since it was published in 2011 I expected it to not be very enlightening and out of date. Most of the suggested web links didn't work or led to sites that seemed illegitimate with loads of whacky product ads. Get a library copy or just google "job hunting online".

[Karen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Didn't make it through this. My best time to read is at night, but I don't want my mind to get going on this.

[Teri Temme · Rating 5 out of 5]

And here I thought I had found all the great websites ;) Thrilled to find more!

[Lisa · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was ok, but it is geared more for people who have never used the internet for job search purposes (or are very new to it).

[Klaus · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some good ideas but the content is a bit dated, always a problem with online oriented books

[Carly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Finished this in a few days (despite the dates above), and it helped me find my current job.

[Helen Gnaig · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really helpful tool in getting to know yourself better and making yourself more competitive in the job market.

[Irfaan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Provoking workbook that tackles how you frame yourself in our profession. Quite good.

[La Fullwood · Rating 5 out of 5]

Useful read. Helpful in upgrading personal development skills.