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

by Katharine Brooks EdD

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.

Genres: College, Nonfiction

272 pages, Paperback

Published April 6, 2021

Reviews

[Readers Prescription · Rating 3 out of 5]

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Would you like to leverage your choices from your college experiences to your career path?
What Color Is Your Parachute? For College, written by Katharine Brooks, EdD.
This is a guidebook to read and use as a writing/thinking tool about you and for you. The organizational charts and questions help to funnel your interests from the beginning of the college process all the way through your career path.
This guide offers solutions to navigate you to the career for you.
There is a much needed social media piece with loads of great ideas to bring about your success towards that great career.
This College edition is the newest edition in the Parachute Career books.
I recommend that this guide be in all college students hands through the high schools, counseling departments, college advisers, and parents!!
It takes a village to raise our children. Let’s continue onward with What Color Is Your Parachute ?

Special thanks to NetGalley and Ten Speed Press for sharing this digital review copy with me in exchange for an honest review.

[Allison Docter · Rating 3 out of 5]

Provides helpful job search resources/tools/strategies. Does a poor job of explaining the "parachute" as a metaphor. This book is more nuanced than her previous "You Majored In What?" career-prep book.

[Kiki · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not quite as a good as the original but a great guide for college aged students who are exploring majors and careers. It will be a recommended resource for one of the career and job exploration classes I teach.

[Scout College Consulting · Rating 5 out of 5]

Offers great tools for self-discovery as well as helpful hints regarding resumes, internships, and social media.

[Jessamy Hintz · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was adapted from Richard N. Bolles’ book “What Color Is Your Parachute?” (which I plan to read next), and it definitely covers the path from major to meaningful work. I was pleased that the book had introspective activities and mindful exercises that are designed to help students land well in whatever future they plan. This book was impactful, and I will be utilizing it’s insights to help students pave their own path toward a meaningful work and life.