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"This is the absolute best job hunter's guide." (Job Hunters Bookstore)
"Parachute remains the gold standard of Career Guides." (Fortune Magazine)
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The Internet
Research
Contacts
Counseling
Job Hunting
Jobs & Resumes
Job Hunting Online
Introduction: The Internet
1. Primer
2. Gateways
3. Supersites
4. Job Search Engines
Introduction: Research On The Internet
1. Directories
2. Search Engines
3. Best Search Engines
4. Meta-Search Tools
5. Clustering
6. Specialized Search Engines
7. General Research
8. Beyond Search Engines
9. The UnderWeb & Deep Searching
10. Beyond The Web: Usenet & Newsgroups
11. Evaluating The Data
12. Grants
Introduction: Contacts And Networking
1. Internet Networking
2. Finding People You Know
3. Finding People You Don't Know
4. Chat Rooms
5. Forums & Message Boards
6. Newsgroups
7. Mailing Lists
8. Networking Web Sites
9. A Category All Its Own
10. Miscellany
11. People At Their Business
12. E-mail
Introduction: Counseling, Testing & Advice
1. Online Job-Hunting Articles
2. Online Job-Hunting Guides
3. The Gateway Sites & More
4. Online Personality & Traits Tests
5. Online Careers Tests
6. Transferable Skills
7. Education
8. More Help: Career Counseling Offices
9. One-on-One Career Counseling
10. Offline Career Counseling
Introduction: Web Sites For Job Hunting Research
1. Geography/Moving/Where To Live
2. Identifying Careers
3. Salaries
4. Industry Research
5. Company Research
6. Company Research & Contact Info
7. Beyond Contact Information
8. More Specific Company Research
9. Self-Employed And Home Business
10. Part-Time, Contract, & Temporary Work
11. Non-Profits And Social Conscience
12. Work For Minorities
13. Work For Women
14. Work For The Disabled
Introduction: Job & Resume Sites
1. Resumes & Cover Letters
2. Portfolios
3. Job Boards: The Supersites
4. Job Boards: Job Search Engines
5. Job Boards: Regionals
6. Job Boards: The Networked Sites
7. Job Boards: College & Graduate Sites
8. Job Boards: Niche/Trade/Specialty
9. Job Boards: Diversity/Women/Disabled
10. Job Boards: Government
11. Job Boards: Contract & Temporary
12. Job Boards: Executive
13. Job Boards: International
14. Job Boards: Links To Job Boards
15. Job Boards: Articles About
16. Volunteering
Introduction: Job Hunting Online
1. Chapter One: Learn The Net
2. Chapter Two: Resumes
3. Chapter Three: The Job Boards
4. Chapter Four: Contacts And Networking
5. Chapter Five: Counseling And Testing
6. Chapter Six: Online Research
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Hi, I’m Dick Bolles. I’m your guide here. This site is designed as a supplement both to my annual, What Color Is Your Parachute: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers, as well as to my new 100 page book, The Job-Hunters’ Survival Guide: How to Find Hope and Rewarding Work, Even When ‘There Are No Jobs.”
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Seven Pieces of Important News April 2013
- This site is out of date, and we are in the process of dramatically upgrading it by June. We are also changing its character. Instead of it's being essentially an index to other sites, it will (when the upgrade is completed) be almost exclusively a series of articles by me on various aspects of the twenty first century job-hunt, or career-change. Many of the links now here are dead, and we know it. If you see a dead link, don't bother to tell us. If you want a replacement, live, link, you can try putting the title of the link's subject matter into a search engine and find out what the new link is. For example, let us imagine you were trying to find LinkedIn but the link here didn't work; okay, try putting "LinkedIn" into the search box of your favorite search engine (Google??) and see what it says the link now is. Click on that. Incidentally, until our upgrade is completed (May or June), you may find up-to-date help from Susan Joyce's website www.job-hunt.org (that's pronounced "job dash hunt dot org). It's very complete.
- I now have a companion website, in addition to this one. It's called eParachute, and its url is http://www.eParachute.com. It's in a very elementary stage, at the moment, but it will continually expand in the months ahead. But even now, you can find there a link to an online interactive course which we designed with Capella University. It has playful graphics and a playful narrator just to make it more fun. The cost is on the site.
- At eParachute you can also ask to be a beta-tester for a new product that eParachute is working on, regarding career choice. That product may be particularly useful to high school and college age. eParachute is produced by my Son, Gary, and his business partner, Eric Barnett, in collaboration with both myself and my wife/partner, Marci.
- I no longer do workshops, of any kind or length. I am instead devoting myself exclusively to writing new books. However, there is an iPad app called What Color Is Your Parachute? Job-Hunter’s Workbook Tablet Edition, available for the iPad for $5.99 from the App Store or from Nook. Based on the new 4th print edition of my Job-Hunter's Workbook, it was created by my publisher Random House, in collaboration with Smashing Ideas, a Seattle-based digital strategy and product company. It is fully interactive.
- There is a new edition of my annual print book, What Color Is Your Parachute? 2013 edition. It is by now well-known that I not only update the book each year, I actually rethink, redesign, reframe, and rewrite it, each year. This edition has been in bookstores (as it is each year) since mid-August. Reader feedback is that it is the best edition, yet. I spent four months, and rewrote two-thirds of the previous edition. It really is new and different. Do get it. Do read it. Do tell your friends about it. It costs about thirteen bucks,plus shipping, on Amazon or Barnes and Noble sites. Based on reader feedback, I strongly recommend the print edition, not the digital, in this case.
- I am going to be speaking at the 100th anniversary conference of the NCDA (National Career Development Association) in Boston, on July 9, 2013. No other speaking engagements are currently on my schedule. Just writing, writing, writing.
- I no longer have time to do individual counseling with my readers, or answer individual questions, either by email or by phone. iI used to, but now with ten million readers, I simply haven't the time. Sorry. I wish I did. If you need help, beyond what the book or above apps can offer, I recommend you consult one of the counselors listed in the back of this year's edition.
The Internet
The Internet
What is the Internet to the job-hunter? The Internet is a place where a job-hunter can perform certain tasks. The Internet becomes five places to the job-hunter...
Research
Research on the Internet
Using the Internet for Research: how to find information on the Internet, what tools are available, how best to use them.
Contacts
Contacts and Networking
In its essence, all job-hunting is a search not only for information, but also for people — for human links between you and information, between you and a prospective employer. These days, such links are called "contacts", and a common word for all of your contacts is your "network" talking to these people is "networking".
Counseling
Counseling, Testing & Advice
At some point, you may realize you need a little career counseling, perhaps some skills testing, and you're hoping to find these on the Internet. Naturally, the Internet cannot replace a live, face-to-face career counselor. But the Internet can give you quite a bit of guidance for your job hunt.
Job Hunting
Web Sites for Job Hunting Research
Job Hunting related research on the Internet --- where to find information that will help your job hunt specifically, such as company research, salaries, fields, and moving. You can follow these links to whatever interests you most right now.
Jobs & Resumes
Job & Resume Sites
When most people are job-hunting, their instinct is to go directly to the job boards and see what is available. Some are richly rewarded, while others are bitterly disappointed. This is not what the Internet does best when you are job-hunting, but it is probably what the Internet should do best.