There may be no better job-hunting adviser than Richard Bolles, author of the best-selling and most widely acclaimed book on the subject, What Color Is Your Parachute? The most recent edition is titled, What Color Is Your Parachute? 2009: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers.
The 2009 edition of the job-seeker’s favorite may be overshadowed, however, by the more recently released (and less expensive, $9.99 vs. $14.86 on amazon.com) The Job-Hunter’s Survival Guide: How to Find a Rewarding Job Even When “There Are No Jobs.”
In “Author Urges Job Seekers to Go Beyond Web,” Washington Post reviewer Vickie Elmer says that Bolles’s latest is more focused on the day-to-day realities of finding employment today, in this stinking recession. Read the rest of this entry »
