" What Color Is Your Parachute? is about job-hunting and career-changing, but it's also about figuring out who you are as a person and what you want out of life." -- Time "[One of the] Books that Shaped Work in America. How could I not put this on the list? . In print since 1970 and revised every year since 1975, it has not only informed and educated job seekers and job changers in the United States, but also had a global impact through publication in more than 20 languages. It's basically the bible of career advice." --United States Department of Labor "Richard is a giant both in my life and certainly in the field. When you think about his contributions to . understanding the whole notion of three boxes of life, creating the flower exercise, and the three questions that really help drive our job-finding activity it is quite remarkable because it certainly changed my life personally, and it changed most of the work that career counselors and specialists and coaches perform.
And I would expect it changed all of our work as we think about how we grow talent in organizations." --Rich Feller, 2012-2013 president of the National Career Development Association (NCDA) "The new edition of the best-selling job-hunting book What Color Is Your Parachute? , in addition to the tried-and-true advice for job seekers Dick Bolles has provided for close to forty years, has new information on job-search productivity, job clubs, and how to organize and manage your job-search. What Color Is Your Parachute? is deservedly the world's most popular job-hunting book, with over eleven million copies sold in twenty-six languages. This . edition is as relevant today as when it was first published. Dick Bolles insightfully stays on the cutting edge of job-searching, and the book is full of new and updated suggestions, along with the classic advice that continues to hold true today." --Alison Doyle, About.com Guide "The people who can educate employees and job seekers on how to really find jobs (and careers) are career counselors and career coaches.
Ideally, a good coach should buy copies of Parachute at wholesale and give a copy to every one of their paying clients." --Richard Knowdell, trainer of career counselors and coaches ". one of the first job-hunting books on the market. It is still arguably the best. And it is indisputably the most popular." -- Fast Company "This is a fantastic tool useful to almost everyone. It's so darn useful because it is about more than just 'finding a job.'" --Kevin Kelly, Cool Tools: A Catalog of Possibilities "Ideally, everyone should read What Color Is Your Parachute? in the tenth grade and again every year thereafter.
" -- Fortune.