What Color Is Your Parachute?
Richard N. Bolles · A practical guide to job hunting and choosing a career.
3 people say it helped them, in their own words on Hacker News.
What people said
Right after reading it - i took the advise of calling companies out of the blue much more seriously, and the difference in conversations was encouraging.
It is what convinced me I could transfer my skills from video game dev into another field and how to come up with a plan to do so.
What Colour is your Parachute made me realize that it really was the job, it wasn't me at all.
What people got from it AI summary
Best if you feel stuck in your career and want practical steps to change direction.
- Showed skills can transfer
- Made cold outreach feel doable
- Shifted blame from self to job
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Practical tools · 346 pages
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