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What Color Is Your Parachute Summary & Review: Don’t Hunt Jobs, Design the Work
What Color Is Your Parachute summary: Bolles’s method for designing work you want — fill the flower, then hunt people, not job…
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"Don't hunt jobs. Design the work."
Richard Nelson Bolles (1927–2017) was an Episcopal priest and the author of What Color Is Your Parachute?, the best-selling career handbook first published in 1970. Trained in physics at MIT and theology at Harvard, he taught job-hunters to inventory their skills and hunt people, not postings.
1 book featured·10M+ copies of Parachute sold·Episcopal priest turned career counselor (1927–2017)
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Key Ideas & Recurring Themes
The Flower Exercise
Bolles’s career method starts with a one-page inventory of skills, knowledge, people, place, and purpose, then hunts organizations and informational conversations instead of spraying résumés at job boards.
Notable Quotes
"The secret of job-hunting is not to hunt for jobs. Hunt for the people who have the power to hire you."— What Color Is Your Parachute
Book Author Richard N. Bolles
What Color Is Your Parachute Summary & Review: Don’t Hunt Jobs, Design the Work
What Color Is Your Parachute summary: Bolles’s method for designing work you want — fill the flower, then hunt people, not job ads.