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It doesn't get any better than this. Richard Bolles is amazing. since 1970,when the original book came out, he has consistently updated and improved on the best, and most practical career planning guide I have ever used.
It includes some self-help features, and ways to help decide what career you prefer over job 'getting a job'. This book (and accompanying workbook) has been a great help to me in trying to secure another job after being recently downsized. It arrived in good condition from the provider, has some wonderful tools in the book to help with job seekers, etc.
The guide is large enough to write on, and lays flat which makes it easier to use than the same tables and graphs in What Color is Your Parachute. All in all, the exercises have led to many insights about my strengths, and likes and dislikes. This is the revised and updated version, I have purchased and used the first edition as well. And I like that the working with animals is now under the category of people. I have a much better picture of where my flower and I will bloom. The updated version is much more user friendly. I particularly like the focus on where one wishes to work in terms of geography, and in terms of the kinds of people one would like for colleagues.
For those who have struggled, as I have, with the manual version of Richard Bolles' Prioritizing Grid, there is a web version, published with Bolles' permission, at: [.].
Not essential to own, but a good working companion to the `What color is your parachute.' book.As you will be creating a plan or map of yourself and your career objectives, having a workbook that you fill-in, will refer to, and keep for life.then the small amount of its cost is worth it.
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