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  • Published: 14 July 2009
  • ISBN: 9781580080262
  • Imprint: Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 112
  • RRP: $19.99

The Job-Hunter's Survival Guide

How to Find Hope and Rewarding Work, Even When "There Are No Jobs"



For those recently laid off (or tenuously employed) during the current economic crisis, for career counselors, for '09 college grads (estimated to be a record-breaking number, and who have distressingly dismal chances of landing a job), and for loyal followers of the Parachute series.

One hundred pages of lifesaving advice for people out of work. When over ten million people have needed help with their job-hunt—or with figuring out what to do with their life—there is one person they have turned to, more than any other. He is Richard N. Bolles, author of the #1 job-hunting book of all time, What Color Is Your Parachute? His name is well-known around the world. Just during the last twelve months, he has appeared in Time (“10 Ideas Changing the World Right Now,” March 2009), U.S. News & World Report (deemed “savior of the nation’s unemployed,” October 2008), NBC’s Today Show (broadcast in April 2009), and many other publications and shows. His book was the #1 best-seller on BusinessWeek’s paperback list as recently as last November.

Never has his advice been more sought than during these brutal economic times. He has responded by writing a completely new book: The Job-Hunter’s Survival Guide, designed particularly for people who are hanging on the ropes, who haven’t time to do a lot of reading but need help desperately—and now. Early reviews have called this little Guide “brilliant” and “tremendously helpful.”

  • Published: 14 July 2009
  • ISBN: 9781580080262
  • Imprint: Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 112
  • RRP: $19.99

About the author

Richard N. Bolles

RICHARD N. BOLLES has been a leader in the career development field for more than thirty-five years. He was trained in chemical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and holds a bachelor’s degree cum laude in physics from Harvard University and a master’s in sacred theology from General Theological (Episcopal) Seminary in New York City. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Marci.

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Praise for The Job-Hunter's Survival Guide

–Fortune magazine

“Parachute remains the gold standard of career guides.”