Richard Bolles - What Color Is Your Parachute?

2. Two famous “distance coaches” are Joel Garfinkle in Oakland, California, www.dreamjobcoaching.com ; and Marshall Goldsmith of www.marshallgoldsmithlibrary.com , international coach to the executive elite, and author (with Mark Reiter) of the popular book, What Got You Here Won’t Get You There.

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4. Yearly readers of this book will notice that we do remove people from this Sampler, without warning. First of all, there are accidents: we drop places we didn’t mean to, but a typographical error was made, somehow (it happens). Oops! Counselor or coach: call this to our attention; we’ll put you back in next year.

But accidents aside, we do deliberately remove the following: places that have moved, and don’t bother to send us their new address. Coaches and counselors: If you are listed here, we expect you to be a professional at communication. When you move, your first priority should be to let us know, immediately. As one exemplary counselor wrote: “You are the first person I am contacting on my updated letterhead… hot off the press just today!” So it should always be, if you want to continue to be listed here. A number of places get removed every year, precisely because of their sloppiness in keeping us up-to-date with their phone and other contact information.

Other causes for removal: Places that have disconnected their telephone, or otherwise suggest that they have gone out of business. Places that our readers lodge complaints against with us, as being unhelpful or even obnoxious. The complaints may be falsi.ed, but we can’t take that chance. Places that change their personnel, and the new person has never even heard of Parachute , or “creative job-search techniques.” College services that we discover (belatedly) serve only “Their Own.” Counseling .rms that employ salespeople as the initial “intake” person that a job-hunter meets. If you discover that any of the places listed in this Sampler fall into any of the above categories, you would be doing a great service to our other readers by dropping us a line and telling us so (10 Stirling Drive, Danville, CA 94526-2921).