Richard Bolles - What Color Is Your Parachute?

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Director, Career Coach, and Founder

E-mail: duncanbolam@careerdovetail.co.uk

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Crystal-Barkley Corp.

Service in the United Kingdom

Phone: 800-333-9003

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Hawkins, Dr. Peter

Mt. Pleasant

Liverpool, L3 5TF

Phone: 0044 0 151 709-1760

Fax: 0044 0 151 709-1576

E-mail: p.Hawkins@gieu.co.uk

John Lees Associates

37 Tatton St.

Knutsford, Cheshire WA16 6AE

Phone: 01565 631625

Contact: John Lees

E-mail: johnlees@johnleescareers.com

www.johnleescareers.com

Sherridan Hughes

Career Management Expert

110 Pretoria Rd.

London SW16 6RN

Phone: 020 8769 5737

E-mail: sherridan@sherridanhughes.com

www.sherridan-hughes.co.uk

DICK BOLLES (often known by his more formal name, Richard Nelson Bolles) is widely acknowledged as the founder of the modern career development field, due to his writings for the past forty years. A member of Mensa and the Society for Human Resource Management, he has been the keynote speaker at hundreds of conferences, around the world. Bolles was trained in chemical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and holds a bachelor’s degree cum laude in physics from Harvard University, a master’s in sacred theology from General Theological (Episcopal) Seminary in New York City, and three honorary doctorates. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his beloved wife, Marci. Contact information:

Office/Home Phone:925-837-3002 (leave message)

E-mail address: dickbolles40@gmail.com

Website: www.jobhuntersbible.com

Blog: http://jobhuntersbible.typepad.com

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Five-day workshop information (held every three months in our home near San Francisco): fivedayworkshop@aol.com

AARP, 3.1, 10.1

Achievements, documenting, 8.1, 14.1

Ads

answering, 1.1, 5.1

researching salaries through, 8.1, 9.1

Agencies. See Employment agencies; Governmental agencies

Aging

Ahbbo.com

Alternatives, importance of, 1.1, 8.1, 9.1, 13.1

Alumni offices

“A minus B equals C” method

Anger

Appearance, importance of

Area codes

Attention, importance of

Attitudes

toward aging

importance of

during interview

for survival, 2.1, 3.1

toward yourself (self-esteem)

toward yourself in relation to employers

toward yourself in relation to other job-hunters, 4.1, 4.2

Azrin, Nathan

Barron-Tieger, Barbara

Bates, Marilyn

Behavioral Interviewing

Benefits, job, 8.1, 9.1

Best Home Businesses for People 50+ (Edwards and Edwards)

Best Home Businesses for the Twenty-First Century

(Edwards and Edwards)

Blogging, 6.1, 7.1, 13.1

Bridge-people (contacts)

asking for job-leads from

definition of

finding, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 14.1

importance of, 7.1, 14.1

for salary research, 8.1, 9.1

Brooks, Phillips

Brown, Barbara

Buckland, Martin

Buechner, Fred

Building-block diagram of skills

Bureau of Labor Statistics, 8.1, 9.1

The Business Owner’s Idea Café

Business Owner’s Toolkit

Calling, one’s

See also

Mission in life

Career centers

Career-change

motivations for

paths of

school and

seven rules for

testing and

types of

Career-choice

paths of

seven rules for

testing and

See also

Career-change; Jobs

Career counselors/coaches

choosing

contracts with, app3.1, app3.2

degrees held by, app3.1, app3.2

dishonest, app3.1, app3.2

fees of, app3.1, app3.2, app3.3

forms for hiring

free workshops by

groups run by

Mission in life and

operating by Internet or telephone

religious

sampler list of, app3.1, app3.2, app3.3

success rate of

Career Interests Game, 12.1, 13.1

Careerkey.org

CareerPlanner.com

Career-portfolios

Cheesman, Joel

Cialdini, Robert B.

Civil service examinations

Classified ads.

See

Ads

CNN/Money

College degrees, failure in getting a job with

Companies.

See

Employers; Organizations

Competency-based interviewing.

See

Behavioral Interviewing

Considerateness, importance of

Contacts.

See

Bridge-people

Contracts

with career counselors/coaches, app3.1, app3.2

with employers, 8.1, 9.1

Control, finding something within your

Corcodilos, Nick, (Corcodilos.com)

Counseling.

See

Career counselors/coaches; Spiritual counselors

Cover letters, importance of

Co-workers, preferred

Crystal, John, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, app1.1, app4.1

Curiosity

Curricula vitae (c.v.).

See

Resumes

Data, skills dealing with

Day laborers

Decision making, tips about

Depression (emotional)

clinical

resumes and

unemployment and, 1.1, app2.1

Desperation, feelings of

Discrimination in hiring, 4.1, 4.2

Distance-counseling

Do What You Are (Tieger and Barron-Tieger)

Doyle, Alison

Dreams, pursuing your, 10.1, 13.1, 13.2

Dunning, Donna

Each one teach one

Education

career-change and

job-hunting skills and, 5.1, 14.1

online, 3.1, 7.1

worthless degrees

See also

Learning

Edwards, Paul and Sarah

Egotism

E-mail

sending resumes by

sending thank-you notes by

Employees, differences between good and bad

Employers

bad-mouthing previous

contacting interesting, 1.1, 5.1

diversity among

“foreign country” analogy for

hiring-fears of, 8.1, 8.2

preferred methods for filling

vacancies vs. job hunters’, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3

questions likely to be asked by, at

interviews, 8.1, 8.2

targeting particular

type of employee sought by

See also

Organizations; Person-who-has-the-power-to-hire-you

Employment agencies

success rate for

temporary (temp), 1.1, 8.1, 9.1, 13.1, 13.2

Employment interviews.

See

Hiring-interviews

Enthusiasm

importance of

lack of

shyness vs.

See also

Passion

Entrepreneur.com

Executive counseling firms, app3.1, app3.2

Ex-offenders

Expenses, estimating

Experience Unlimited Job Club

Facebook, 6.1, 7.1

Faith.

See

Mission in life; Religious beliefs

Family

asking for job-leads from

home businesses and, 10.1, 10.2

Farrell, Warren

Fast Company

magazine

Fear

employers’, 5.1, 8.1, 8.2

of talking with others, 7.1, 14.1

Feller, Rich

Fields

of fascination, 5.1, 13.1, 13.2

on Flower Diagram

50-50 rule during job interviews

Fine, Sidney, 13.1, app1.1

Five-Day Workshops, in author’s home