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What Color Is Your Parachute?: Your Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career Success Audiobook, by Richard N. Bolles Play Audiobook Sample

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

What Color Is Your Parachute?: Your Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career Success Audiobook, by Richard N. Bolles Play Audiobook Sample
Release Date: December 10, 2024
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Read By: Sean Runnette Publisher: Random House Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 5.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.13 hours at 2.0x Speed
Release Date: December 10, 2024
Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9798217077670

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

28

Longest Chapter Length:

66:00 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

08 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

17:34 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

The groundbreaking, indispensable guide to rewarding work and a fulfilling life—more than ten million copies sold!

For more than fifty years, What Color Is Your Parachute? has transformed the way people think about job hunting. Whether searching for that first position, recovering from a layoff, or dreaming of a career change, What Color Is Your Parachute? has shown millions of readers how to network effectively, compose impressive resumes and cover letters, interview with confidence, and negotiate the best possible salary—while discovering how to make their livelihood part of authentic living.

 

More than a job-hunting book, Richard N. Bolles’s timeless wisdom and famed self-assessment exercise clarifies seven key dimensions, so you can uncover your greatest passions, most valued traits, and transferable skills to design a life that enables you to flourish.

 

With the job market in constant flux, people everywhere have found that understanding who they are—what they care about, where and how they do their best work, and the most effective way to express their abilities—is the best compass to navigating an ever-changing and challenging professional landscape. It is also how their work can become part of a life filled with passion and purpose.

 

Using the trailblazing advice and enduring guidance of What Color Is Your Parachute?, job-hunters and career changers will have the tools to discover—and land—the work, and life, most meaningful to them.

* This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF of exercises and charts from the book.

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About Richard N. Bolles

Richard N. Bolles has led the job-search field for more than forty years. A member of Mensa and the Society for Human Resource Management, he has been the keynote speaker at hundreds of conferences. Bolles holds a bachelor’s degree cum laude in physics from Harvard University, a master’s degree from General Theological (Episcopal) Seminary in New York City, and three honorary doctorates.

About Sean Runnette

Sean Runnette, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, has also directed and produced more than two hundred audiobooks, including several Audie Award winners. He is a member of the American Repertory Theater company and has toured the United States and internationally with ART and Mabou Mines. His television and film appearances include Two If by Sea, Cop Land, Sex and the City, Law & Order, the award-winning film Easter, and numerous commercials.