For more than fifty years, What Color Is Your Parachute? has transformed the way people think about job hunting. Whether searching for that first position, recovering from a layoff, or dreaming of a career change, What Color Is Your Parachute? has shown millions of readers how to network effectively, compose impressive resumes and cover letters, interview with confidence, and negotiate the best possible salary--while discovering how to make their livelihood part of authentic living.

More than a job-hunting book, Richard N. Bolles's timeless wisdom and famed self-assessment exercise clarifies seven key dimensions, so you can uncover your greatest passions, most valued traits, and transferable skills to design a life that enables you to flourish.

With the job market in constant flux, people everywhere have found that understanding who they are--what they care about, where and how they do their best work, and the most effective way to express their abilities--is the best compass to navigating an ever-changing and challenging professional landscape. It is also how their work can become part of a life filled with passion and purpose.

Using the trailblazing advice and enduring guidance of What Color Is Your Parachute?, job-hunters and career changers will have the tools to discover--and land--the work, and life, most meaningful to them.

It's time to discover your hidden genius--and embrace your life's work.

If happiness, success, and fulfillment are your intended destinations in life (and who doesn't want those?) Your Hidden Genius is your express-lane ticket. --Adam Taggart, entrepreneur; president and cofounder, Peak Prosperity; and author of Finding Your Way to Your Authentic Career

Featuring access to the innovative YouScience aptitude assessment, Your Hidden Genius reveals your innate talents, interests, and personality traits along with the infinite paths that can lead to your utmost happiness, career success, and personal fulfillment.

Do you love brainstorming sessions and juggling multiple assignments, or are you happiest when you are given space to concentrate on a single mission? Are you a three-dimensional thinker who enjoys tangible projects, or are you more at home solving abstract puzzles? Would you say you are a social butterfly who talks to everyone, or someone who prefers a quiet, focused group to large crowds?

Your Hidden Genius provides a custom-made road map to what makes you special, revealing your distinct combination of natural talents, interests, and personality traits--a mix as unique to you as your fingerprint. With the instant appeal of Enneagrams and Strengthsfinder, Your Hidden Genius instead focuses on scientific testing rather than self-reported answers as a means to unlock your potential.

Included in the book is access to the groundbreaking YouScience aptitude assessment, a series of gamelike exercises that distill the science of aptitude measurement into a ninety-minute online experience, then pairs your results with its robust and proprietary career database. You'll uncover new opportunities for work and leisure that suit both your interests and your talents.

Betsy Wills, cofounder of YouScience and a pioneer in aptitude awareness, and expert career coach Alex Ellison joined forces to write this essential life and career guide based on this cutting-edge assessment and take a deep dive into different aptitude profiles and in-depth context for how to interpret your results. Whether you're just starting out or pivoting mid-career, Your Hidden Genius will guide you through today's complex and shifting professional landscape and be your indispensable resource through every twist and turn of the road.

With science-backed results, real-life stories, and rare insight into you, Your Hidden Genius explains why self-awareness is the most important step toward a fulfilling and meaningful life.

A USA Today Bestseller

The ultimate guide to changing jobs and advancing your career. --Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and Hidden Potential, and host of the TED podcast WorkLife

Three innovators offer a road-tested framework for career development that helps anyone make real progress on their path when they switch jobs.

Each year, an estimated 1 billion people switch jobs worldwide. A lucky few stumble into the role of their dreams, but hundreds of millions are disappointed. What if, when looking for a job, we could make more informed choices to better select the opportunity we seize? What if the power to move along our career paths lies with each of us, as opposed to hiring managers or the market?

According to the Jobs to Be Done theory of product design--customers don't simply buy products; they recruit them to do specific jobs that solve a problem. Job Moves adopts this model to view jobs as positions we hire to help us make progress in our lives and careers. Based on research conducted with over a thousand professionals at all stages of their careers, Ethan Bernstein, Michael B. Horn, and Bob Moesta find that this notion bears out no matter your age, stage, or trajectory.

Key to this new, universal approach is understanding our priorities at the specific moment when we make each move. This team has created a process to help individuals identify the current circumstances driving them to look for new opportunities, the experiences they hope to gain in a new job, what tradeoffs they'll gladly make in return, and how to learn-before-switching if a new job will deliver. The result encourages job seekers to look beyond a title or company for a more holistic view and ask not what you can do in a job, but what a potential job can do for you.

Full of useful activities and tools, Job Moves offers the timeless framework of our generation to help anyone create a career that will be happier and more fulfilling.

Why do People

So Often Fail

to Build Careers

They Really Love?

Based on 25 years of experience working with thousands of leaders - from early-career product managers to CEOs - Never Search Alone gives readers a time-tested, multi-step process (with exercises, tools, and templates) to find the right job now.

Three breakthrough ideas animate Never Search Alone:

1. Job Search Council - Because your emotional balance is the most important thing you need to manage in the job search, you need a support group of fellow job seekers that will help turn your insecurity and anxiety into hope, motivation, and accountability.

2. Candidate-Market Fit - You are the 'product' in a job search. Thus, before you begin networking and interviewing, you need to identify precisely what you want and what the market wants. This key step will help you figure out the intersection of your hopes, dreams, and market realities.

3. Four Legs to the Negotiations Stool - Never Search Alone shows you how to interview and then negotiate for the four key things that will set you up to

succeed in your new job: salary, budget, resources, and support.

To accelerate your career and make your dreams more achievable, Never Search Alone.

A focus on passion over skill can be dangerous, leading to anxiety and chronic job hopping. Spending time with professionals who admit to deriving great satisfaction from their work, Newport uncovers the strategies they use and the pitfalls they avoid in developing their compelling careers.

Cal reveals 4 Rules for falling in love with your job:

#1: Don't follow your passion
#2: Be so good they can't ignore you
#3: Turn down a promotion
#4: Think small, act big

Cal Newport's manifesto is mandatory reading for anyone fretting about what to do with their life, or frustrated by their current job situation. So Good They Can't Ignore You provides an evidence-based blueprint for creating work you love, and will change the way you think about careers, happiness, and the crafting of a remarkable life.

The Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) is the premier, nationally recognized source for career information. Especially designed to provide valuable up-to-date information, the Handbook is great for all individuals making decisions about their future including students about to graduate from high school or college, recent graduates, individuals returning to the workforce after an absence, or anyone looking for a career change. It has been used by millions since the 1940s.

The completely updated OOH reflects employment information released in August 2024. It includes information on the fastest-growing occupations, number of new jobs, and a summary of the highest-paying occupations.

This Handbook contains numerous occupations profiles and includes information on:

• Job duties
• Education and training needed
• Median pay
• Important qualities for the job
• Licenses, certification, and registrations needed
• Contact information to learn more about the occupation
• Job outlook

Special features include:

• Assumptions and methods used in preparing employment projections
• A comprehensive appendix summarizing the occupations
• Data for occupations not covered in detail
• Employment projections
• Glossary of terms used throughout the book
• Occupational information network coverage; and a detailed index

Plan for your dream career and take control of your future without going into debt!

Are you a High School or Secondary School student worried about upcoming college and career planning decisions?

Are you at that point in your life where you have to make a choice about your future?

Have you been told repeatedly that going to college is the only way to ensure career success?

Have all those student loan horror stories made you wary of going into debt for an education?

Graduating from high school should be an exciting time. You're finally done with this chapter in your life, and are ready to take on new and more challenging opportunities as you move toward adulthood and independence.

But it's also a time when you feel the pressure to make a decision - pick a major, choose a school, figure out your career path.

With so many options to choose from, this can be a paralyzing process. Choosing one option may mean you're closing the door to better ones. What if you make the wrong choice?

Even more, with the cost of college tuition averaging tens of thousands of dollars, it may seem like you're doomed to start your career already burdened by student debt.

Student debt is not only a financial burden you could be carrying around for the next 10 to 20 years. It could also impede major life decisions and negatively affect your mental health and overall quality of life.

The good news is, a college degree and student debt aren't your only options. You can still get access to valuable training and practical experience that will set you up for a flourishing career... without having to enter your working life in Major College Debt!

It's all in this information-packed handbook filled with practical advice and information from an expert who chose an alternative educational path... and found great success and security.

Here's just a fraction of what you'll discover from this book:

• Everything you need to know about the education path that is just as good as traditional college (or even better), but no one seems to talk about it!
• Questions you should be asking yourself (and prospective employers) to figure out the career that's best for you
• Why you should be thinking of retirement as early as now and what that has to do with your career plans
• The art of job shadowing - gain an insight into the inner workings of a job that you won't get through research alone
• A deeper look into the costs of education, so you have an idea of what expenses to expect beyond tuition fees
• The traditional vs. an alternative route - an in-depth comparison of college and vocational school, including the training and career opportunities each provides

In-demand and lucrative jobs that don't require a college degree - you could be earning great yearly income sooner, and you won't have to rack up student debt!

Expert information tailored for young adult students in the US, UK, and Canada!

And so much more.

Figuring out what you want to do after high school is one of the biggest-and scariest-decisions you'll ever have to make... but with the right information, you can take control of your future and make these important decisions with greater confidence.

Forge your own path in life and don't let anything or anyone stop you from creating the future you want for yourself.

The first step to your success story starts today!

The third edition of the essential guide for college students and recent graduates to help you prepare for starting your career--now revised and updated for Gen Z to reflect the realities of the current job market

How do you get a job without expe-rience and get experience without a job? It's the question virtually every college student and recent gradu-ate faces. With the rise of hybrid work, advances in artificial intelligence, and ever-shifting economic circumstances, the situation for aspiring Gen Z profes-sionals has never been more challenging. But there is help.

Getting from College to Career is the definitive guide to building the experience, skills, and confidence you need to tackle today's fast-moving job search, offering action-oriented tips and strategies ranging from the simple to the expert. Revised with new material, this third edition includes up-to-date advice on how to:

Use the best digital and mobile tools-- including AI--for career prep and job hunting E-mail, text, and Zoom like a professional Interview in person and virtually Reskill and upskill for jobs of the future Manage your mental health through career ups and downs And more

Getting from College to Career gives you the cutting-edge information and guidance you need to get your foot in the door of the real world. Don't start your first job search without it!

Are you tired of sending out dozens of job applications every day and never hearing back? Or, when you do land interviews, not getting an offer, and never knowing why? As a former recruiter and head of HR at multiple companies, Madeline Mann has seen every kind of job application under the sun, and she's here to tell you that the antiquated job search advice you've been told before is all wrong.

After years of working in HR, Mann began to share her behind-the-scenes insight into the world of hiring, creating viral career tip videos and posts online--and soon amassing nearly 1 million followers across YouTube, LinkedIn, and TikTok. In Reverse the Search, Mann distills her juiciest advice into a concise guide on how to turn the job search around, going from job seeking to job shopping--from desperately sending out applications to having your pick of jobs. By following the simple but proven steps--beginning with determining your ideal job through negotiating your final offer--that have landed hundreds of Mann's career coaching clients positions at dream companies, you will transform into a lifelong Job Shopper, getting recruited and attracting opportunities at every stage.

Because Job Shoppers know they deserve to land more than any old job. They deserve a job that brings meaningful work, happiness, flexibility, and financial stability. And with Reverse the Search's help, you'll get noticed and approached, even when you're not actively looking for a job. You will have the leverage, and you will never have to perform a soul-sucking job search again.

This fill-in workbook for the career classic What Color Is Your Parachute? is a helpful tool for recent grads, workers laid off mid-career, and anyone searching for an inspiring work-life change. Featuring:

• The Flower Exercise that gets everything about your skills and preferences in one place
• The Party Exercise to help you discover who you work best with
• The Transferable Skills Grid that helps you discover your most valuable skills

[Warning: Do not buy an old edition of Timothy Crack's books by mistake. Click on the Amazon author page link for a list of the latest editions .]

THIS IS A MUST READ! It is the first and the original book of quantitative questions from finance job interviews. Painstakingly revised over 30 years and 25 editions, Heard on The Street has been shaped by feedback from hundreds of readers. With well over 75,000 copies in print, its readership is unmatched by any competing book.

The revised 25th edition contains 242 quantitative questions collected from actual job interviews in investment banking, investment management, and options trading. The interviewers use the same questions year-after-year, and here they are with detailed solutions! This edition also includes 267 non-quantitative actual interview questions, giving a total of more than 500 actual finance job interview questions.

Questions that appeared in (or are likely to appear in) traditional corporate finance or investment banking job interviews are indicated with a bank symbol in the margin (72 of the 242 quant questions and 196 of the 267 non-quant questions). This makes it easier for corporate finance candidates to go directly to the questions most relevant to them. Most of these questions also appeared in capital markets interviews and quant interviews. So, they should not be skipped over by capital markets or quant candidates unless they are obviously irrelevant.

There is also a recently revised section on interview technique based on feedback from interviewers worldwide. The quant questions cover pure quant/logic, financial economics, derivatives, and statistics. They come from all types of interviews (corporate finance, sales and trading, quant research, etc.), and from all levels of interviews (undergraduate, MS, MBA, PhD). The first seven editions of Heard on the Street contained an appendix on option pricing. That appendix was carved out as a standalone book many years ago and it is now available in a recently revised edition: Basic Black-Scholes.

Dr. Crack did PhD coursework at MIT and Harvard, and graduated with a PhD from MIT. He has won many teaching awards, and has publications in the top academic, practitioner, and teaching journals in finance. He has degrees/diplomas in Mathematics/Statistics, Finance, Financial Economics and Accounting/Finance. Dr. Crack taught at the university level for over 25 years including four years as a front line teaching assistant for MBA students at MIT, and four years teaching undergraduates, MBAs, and PhDs at Indiana University. He has worked as an independent consultant to the New York Stock Exchange and to a foreign government body investigating wrong doing in the financial markets. He previously held a practitioner job as the head of a quantitative active equity research team at what was the world's largest institutional money manager.

When we're unhappy in our jobs, we often attribute our frustration to a bad manager, boring tasks, and stressful workloads. But our dissatisfaction at work usually stems from a deeper psychological need that's not being met at work, like not getting the recognition you deserve.

In Job Therapy, Dr. Tessa West helps you figure out the real reason you're unhappy and shows you how to find a new position in which you'll thrive, whether in a different role, company, or new industry altogether. Through her research interviewing thousands of people who have recently switched jobs or undergone career changes, she found there are five common sources of career frustration:

• having an identity crisis - does your sense of self no longer match your job?
• you've drifted-apart - do you no longer recognize the job you once loved?
• you're torn between places - are you taking on too many roles at work, switching tasks too often, or stuck between two paths?
• you're the runner up - do you always feel like you keep coming in second?
• you're the underappreciated star - are you crushing it at work, but the people around you aren't recognizing your performance?

The most practical, stress-free guide ever written for finding a white-collar job.--Dan Heath, coauthor of Switch and Made to Stick

Technology has changed not only the way we do business, but also the way we look for work. The 2-Hour Job Search rejects laundry lists of conventional wisdom in favor of a streamlined job search approach that produces results quickly and efficiently. In three steps, creator Steve Dalton shows you how to select, prioritize, and make contact with potential employers so you can land that critical first interview.

In this revised second edition, you'll find updated advice on how to efficiently surf online job postings, how to reach out to contacts at your dream workplace and when to follow up, and advice on using LinkedIn, Indeed, and Google to your best advantage. Dalton incorporates ideas from leading thinkers in behavioral economics, psychology, and game theory, as well as success stories from readers of the first edition.

The 2-Hour Job Search method has proven so successful that it has been shared at schools across the globe and is a formal part of the curriculum for all first-year MBAs at Duke University. With this book, you'll learn how to make it work for you too.

Strategies that successful career changers use--and how to make them work for you.

Nearly all of us have entertained the notion of changing careers. Feeling burned out at work, unfulfilled, or just plain unhappy with whatever we're doing, we long to reinvent ourselves on a new and different career path. But how do we make this transition successfully?

In this update of the groundbreaking classic, bestselling author Herminia Ibarra presents a model for career reinvention that flies in the face of everything we've learned from career experts--and is tailor-made for changing careers in today's uncertain world. Career transition is not a linear path toward some predetermined identity, according to Ibarra, but a crooked journey along which we try on a host of possible selves we might become. Successful reinvention comes not from deciphering and analyzing our past, but from inventing and testing our possible futures.

Using new examples of people in different stages of a career transition, Ibarra identifies the three critical strategies--experiment with new professional activities and identities, interact in new networks of people, and make sense of what is happening to us in light of emerging possibilities--that all successful career changers use. She shows how you can use these strategies to:

• Explore your possible selves
• Craft and execute identity experiments
• Create small wins that keep momentum going
• Connect with role models and mentors who can ease the transition
• Arrange new learnings into a coherent story

Now with action-oriented exercises to help you work successfully through your own career transition, this updated edition gives you the tools to discover a new path and find success in your new career.

The World's Most Influential Book on Personal Success

The bestselling classic that made Systems Over Goals, Talent Stacking, and Passion Is Overrated universal success advice has been reborn.

Once in a generation, a book revolutionizes its category and becomes the preeminent reference that all subsequent books on the topic must pay homage to, in name or in spirit.

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, is such a book for the field of personal success.

A contrarian pundit and persuasion expert in a class of his own, Adams has reached hundreds of millions directly and indirectly through the 2013 first edition's straightforward yet counterintuitive advice-to invite failure in, embrace it, then pick its pocket.

The second edition of How to Fail is a tighter, updated version, by popular demand. Yet new and returning readers alike will find the same candor, humor, and timeless wisdom on productivity, career growth, health and fitness, and entrepreneurial success as the original classic.

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, Second Edition is the essential read (or re-read) for anyone who wants to find a unique path to personal victory-and make luck find you in whatever you do.

Nicholas Pearce shows readers how to build a meaningful career with a moral center and a purpose in the world.

The Purpose Path is for people in any field and at any life stage who long to have not just a job or a career, but a true vocation that allows them to connect their soul with their role. The Purpose Path is organized around five key questions:

What is success?
Who am I?
Why am I here?
Am I running the right race?
Am I running the race well?

Nicholas Pearce sits at the unconventional intersection of business, faith, and academia. With engaging stories and candid advice, he shows how he and other people from various walks of life have asked and answered these five questions in order to start, shape, or even radically change their lives and careers. Inspiring, thought-provoking, and practical, The Purpose Path is an essential book for anyone who seeks the clarity and courage to advance their authentic life's work every day.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Navigate the modern world of work to find the job you've been dreaming about and thrive

What Lights You Up? Illuminate Your Path and Take the Next Big Step in Your Career takes readers on a journey to find their next meaningful and fulfilling job--no matter where they are right now. Whether you're an industry veteran pivoting between fields, a stay-at-home parent just rejoining the workforce, or a college student trying to find their footing, this heartfelt, actionable, and authentic book covers everything you need to know about getting results in the modern world of work and is full of insightful, real-life stories of success that inspire the reader to take action in their own life.

Inspired by renowned executive coach, business advisor, and speaker Mary Olson-Menzel's highly effective MVP 360 Coaching program, this book delivers insight on topics like:

• Developing and telling your own highly individualistic story to get noticed and hired
• Getting results from LinkedIn, social media, and personal branding
• Rocking the interview, negotiating the offer, and landing the job
• Staying on a path to vibrant success in your first three months at a new job--and the rest of your life

What Lights You Up? is an essential guide and roadmap for everyone and anyone seeking direction in their career journey. Filled with highly effective tips, tricks, and strategies, this book will help readers transition from where they are now into a fulfilling and meaningful new career and beyond.

The most valuable skills in our economy are often untaught and unspoken. But if you master them, you'll achieve extraordinary results.

These are nontechnical skills like resilience, confidence, and influence. Often overlooked by the educational system, they are key to a successful career. This book goes in-depth with the 12 most important.

Based on the author's lifetime of real-world, hard-won experience, and backed by extensive research and conversations with leadership experts, this book empowers you with a strong foundation for long-lasting job success.

With straightforward how to explanations and action steps, supported by examples, you'll learn how to:

• create a career path that matches your strengths and aspirations
• build confidence in yourself, your skills, and your ideas
• fit in as a respected team member
• make sure you live up to expectations
• avoid stress
• handle mistakes and conflicts with grace

As an added bonus, you get a dedicated job search appendix with step-by-step instructions and helpful tips for preparing, applying, and interviewing for potential jobs.

Whether you are a soon-to-be graduate, just starting your career, or looking for a job (including your first professional job), use 12 Universal Skills as your trusted guide.

NOTE: Purchase of the book includes unlimited access to more than 30 downloadable templates and self-assessment tools you can use to boost your results.

Professionally?

Longtime game designer Justin Gary has the answers you seek. After twenty years in the gaming industry, creating such games as Solforge, Ascension, and the World of Warcraft Miniatures Game, Justin is now sharing all his secrets in Think Like a Game Designer.

Best of all, Justin's secrets are really simple, practical, and

common sense steps you can take yourself. Justin will walk you

through each step and provide exercises for you to formulate

your own game concepts and bring them to fruition.

Whether you want to create video games, board games, of just

discover how a true creative mind works, it's all here in Think Like A Game Designer. It's time to take the first step toward your game designer dream.

Are you game?

Boost your confidence, ace your interview, and get the job

Job Interviewing For Dummies will teach you how to prepare for your next job interview, deal with tough questions, and gain the tools and skills to interview with confidence and poise. This book offers a structured, step-by-step approach for succeeding in virtual and in-person interviews. You'll find information, strategies, and examples to empower you to present your best self to potential employers. Learn how to anticipate and prepare for the most likely questions, regardless of your level or industry, and be prepared for anything--an interview on short notice, explaining gaps on your resume, changing careers, and beyond. With examples and stories from the interview trenches, this friendly Dummies guide will help you breathe new life into your job search.

• Gain the poise you need to own the interview room (or the video chat)
• Brush up on your interview skills if you haven't done this in a while
• Come prepared with impressive answers and questions to ask
• Overcome common challenges like resume gaps

This book is for anyone interested in finding a new job or helping others in their job search. With Job Interviewing For Dummies, be prepared to hear yes more often!