What Color is Your Parachute?

Let’s face it; the credit crunch has changed the world we live in.

All around the globe right now there are hundreds of thousands of people scouring a dwindling number of recruitment ads in the papers or online, looking for work.

If you have ever been unemployed and in need of an income, you will know that job-hunting can seem a formidable task. So job hunters need hope in bucket loads. But in today’s competitive environment, job seekers need more. They need something that will give them an edge.

Although there are many tools out there that can help, certainly one of the better ones is a book called “What Color is Your Parachute? A practical manual for Job Hunters and Career-Changers."

A long term New York Times Best Seller and the best-selling job-hunting and career-changing book in the world, one of the reasons that the book works so well is that it is based on the basic premise that the secret to a successful job hunt starts with knowing ourselves – and if you follow that premise, you will be well positioned to successfully job search or change your career.

In 1995, the Library of Congress' Center for the Book listed it as one of "25 Books That Have Shaped Readers' Lives". Recent reviews have called it "the job hunter’s Bible" and "the Cadillac of job-search books."

Published by Ten Speed Press, What Color is Your Parachute has been revised and updated annually since it was first published in the early 1970s.

- Available in the UAE from Magrudy’s Bookshops.