This is the CD-ROM version of the best selling job-hunting guide What Color Is your Parachute. This edition contains the CD-ROM software, as well as a copy of the 1998 edition of What Color Is Your Parachute?, the book that has sold over 6 million copies and is now in its 26th year. It continues to be the benchmark for all career counseling because of its original approach to the job hunt and career search process. While many books attain little or no value from being transferred to a new media, the opposite is true for this particular title. The author, Dick Bolles, has created a very comprehensive and detailed method by which job hunters and career changers can make a true assessment of their skills, knowledges and goals. It is a highly interactive process that requires a considerable amount of pen and paper work from the user. In much the same way that the software Turbo Tax makes the paperwork aspect of filling in tax forms easier, the clear electronic templates and exercises in the CD-ROM make doing the Parachute exercises easier. From a user's perspective the value in this is enormous. The author has claimed that the true value of his work lies in doing these exercises which are designed to help you create an illuminating inventory of your true skills and passions. It is the core of his work. Unfortunately, completing these exercises in the old paper based format has oftentimes been overlooked and neglected by the casual reader. To many, although they reaped rich rewards from the author's counsel, actually doing the exercises just seemed like too much work. The CD-ROM, however, does much to overcome this omission. Using video instruction and audio, the user is encouraged, counseled and guided though the complete program in a manner that ensures a far higher completion ratio. It is a perfect example of how technology can enhance and improve upon an already phenomenal teaching and learning experience. If you need to find a job, or want to define exactly what is best for you in terms of a fulfilling career, this program is a must buy.
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For Windows 95-98.
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The task of finding a job or changing careers has now become an expected and "repeatable" part of everyday life. This means learning and applying the tools to find a new job or successfully change your career must become a familiar part of one's working life. No one in the history of the job hunting industry has addressed this problem with as much imagination and original thinking as Richard Bolles. His work What Color Is Your Parachute? has been the all time best selling job-hunting guide ever published. Now it is available here on CD-ROM. The original book is without doubt one of the first truly interactive efforts in print. It is full of exercises that require the reader to conceive, write and then cut and paste bits and pieces describing themselves that will eventually turn into a collage of their life. While this was indeed a challenge in the print format, the task has now been greatly eased by using software to replace much of the manual elements of the printed version. Another major added value lies in the access to the ever-increasing value of Internet job hunting. The software provides descriptions and links to most of the important job listing sites and career counseling resources. There is even a direct link out to these sites from inside the program. The software also includes the complete version of the new 1998 edition of What Color Is Your Parachute? Twenty-six years later, it remains the gold standard for job hunters and career changers alike.
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This software will help job hunters, career changers, the unemployed, people re-entering the job market, veterans, college students and high school students. Author Richard Nelson Bolles uses video audio text and exercises to help you identify and land the job or career of your dreams. Bolles makes this basic promise: "There are always jobs out there waiting to be filled. The successful job-hunter is the one who knows how to find them. Successful job-hunting is a learned skill. It can be studied. It can be mastered. By you." To keep his promise Bolles teaches the job hunter the What, Where and How of job-hunting. What is it you most love to do? Where do you want to perform such work? And finally, once you know what and where, how do you actually go and get such a job? The results of following Bolles's Parachute method of job-hunting have been phenomenal. There's a reason this job-hunting method remains the best selling guide on the market - it works.
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Great CD-Rom for job hunters and changers!,
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The CD-ROM version of "What Color Is Your Parachute" is fabulous -- I'd recommend it to anyone who knows exactly what they want to do for a living (for the job hunting tips) but especially for those who don't have a clue, or feel like they have too many great ideas to choose between. I thought I knew what I wanted to do, and after going through the flower exercises, I still learned new things about myself. It's so much easier doing the exercises right on the computer while you are reading, instead of pulling out a notebook and pencil each time (and then not being able to find the notebook the next time, etc.). Dick's video and sound clips helped stimulate my imagination, and the prioritizing exercises always yielded illuminating results. The graphics are great - no boring spreadsheet-looking tables to fill in, just fun white boards and legal pads. And don't forget to print out your "flower" for hanging!
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