Richard Bolles - What Color Is Your Parachute?

Dick Bolles teaches in person, in his home near San Francisco, for five days.

The course runs from Saturday night through Thursday afternoon, 9 a.m. through 5:30 p.m. daily.

It is open to anyone: young adults, career counselors, the unemployed, ex-military, homemakers returning to the job-market, people in mid-career crisis, people facing retirement, and people needing to figure out a new career for themselves.

Past participants have come from the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Chile, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Italy, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, South Korea, the Philippines, and other countries.

Workshops are restricted to the first twenty-one people who enroll. Meetings are held in the author’s home, hosted by his beloved wife, Marci. Continental breakfast and lunch are served each day at the Workshop. Participants usually stay at a Best Western motel, a mile down the road.

Sessions consist of lectures by the author, interactive exercises, and working by oneself or in trios or in groups of six. Topics covered vary from workshop to workshop, depending on the participants’ needs. No two workshops have identical curricula; hence, participants often return in later years.

For a schedule of dates, further information about the workshop, costs, and registration information, send an email to Marci at: fivedayworkshop@aol.com

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Available November 15, 2011.

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1. www.bls.gov/jlt

2. www.bls.gov/cps

3. http://tinyurl.com/3ex7ryz

1. Described at length in my 1978 paperback book, The Three Boxes of Life and How to Get Out of Them: An Introduction to Life/Work Planning , now out of print, but available online, used, for as little as $4.00 U.S., at sites such as Amazon.com.

2. Floyd Norris, “Resentment Is Rising in Euro Zone,” New York Times , April 15, 2011, page B1.

3. Floyd Norris, “Resentment Is Rising in Euro Zone” New York Times , April 15, 2011, page A3.

4. “Briefing on the Economy,” Time , April 11, 2011.

1. By Barbara Ann Kipfer. Workman Publishing, 2007, revised and updated.

2. Winston Churchill (1874–1965). It was also he who said, “If you are going through hell, keep going.”

3. By Marshall Goldsmith, with Mark Reiter. Hyperion, 2007.

1. Debra Angel MacDougall and Elisabeth Harney Sanders-Park. The book was published by Worknet Training Services in 1997. A more current book of theirs is titled The 6 Reasons You’ll Get the Job: What Employers Look for—Whether They Know It or Not , published in 2010 by Prentice Hall.

2. “Briefing on the Economy,” Time , April 11, 2011.

3. http://tinyurl.com/27c4z5

4. His detailed manual describing exactly how to do this has been out of print for years; but the desperate (and well-off) can find it for about $100 at alibris.com . It’s called The Job Club Counselor’s Manual: A Behavioral Approach to Vocational Counseling . Nathan Azrin is the author.

5. From an analysis, released in April 2011, by Jobs2web, Inc., of 1,300,000 job applications and 26,000 hires in 2010.

1. As of February 16, 2011, there are 156 million blogs in the U.S.

2. Over 150 billion text messages are sent per month, in the U.S. And that was back in 2009.

3. http://tinyurl.com/4ywf2yf

4. http://tinyurl.com/2crj55

1. Many of the social media sites create groups you can join. As a consequence, 82 percent of social network users and 85 percent of Twitter users participate in groups, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project’s 2011 survey.

2. Social media is beginning to change the way work is done. See www.menloinnovations.comwhere all work—all work—is done in pairs.

3. A study reported in the May 23, 2011, issue of the New York Times .

4. If you don’t know what this is, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashtag#Hashtags.

5. Daniel has summarized his system in a book published here in the U.S. in 1996: it is called The PIE Method for Career Success: A Unique Way to Find Your Ideal Job , published by JIST Works, Inc. It is a fantastic book, and I give it my highest recommendation. Daniel has a wonderful website of “career games,” at www.careergames.com .

6. If you want further instructions about this whole process, I refer you to “The Practice Field Survey,” pp. 187–196, in Where Do I Go from Here with My Life? by John Crystal and friend, published by Ten Speed Press.

7. A polite, “Oh, do you have to go?” should be understood for what it is: politeness. Your response should be, “Yes, I promised to only take ten minutes of your time, and I want to keep to my word.” This will almost always leave a very favorable impression behind you.

1. Reported in the Financial Times Career Guide 1989 for the United Kingdom

2. This one was done by a researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, whose name has been lost in the mists of time.

3. This one was conducted by my friend and colleague, Donal Porot, of Geneva, Swtizerland.