Richard Nelson Bolles – What Color Is Your Parachute?

The one that I rented was the outdated 2001 edition. It boasted to be The Best-Selling Job-Hunting Book in the World!

This book is revised every year with feedback from readers. Get this – it’s A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters & Career-Changers. He has a website JobHuntersBible which is to be used with the book because the book covers more. Aha. The book and website have insights from the employers, headhunters and job hunters.

The book is filled with drawings from old times publications like those from pictorial Jane Eyre, Oliver Twist. It has strips of modern comic and standalone drawings. There are 2 font colours – red and black. The updated versions have website links throughout the book.

There are 6 Chapters and I’m reading Chapter 2 now. Yeah :)

Chapter 1: A Hunting We Will Go is a curvy poem and a lady.

Chapter 2: Rejection Shock

Impressions from companies in job advertisements

1 Basic and essential information of company

Clear logo, company name, location of the job, contact – using own company’s email account. Using a personal email or public email services like hotmail, yahoo, gmail, etc gives the impression that the company is .. [go to #3]

A contact name and position are not essential but would be helpful to applicants – knowing more would give the reassurance to them that the advertisement is real and your company is responsible.

2 Method for application

Email, snail mail, fax, website?

If your company accepts only online applications, mention this so that applicants would not fax or write in and you don’t have to waste time and resources in sorting those mails and faxes.