What Color is Your Parachute?

 What Color is Your Parachute?

Youtube videos

Discover & Leverage Your 3 Best Skills, by Dick Bolles, author of What Color Is Your Parachute


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb9Zwz0RAuY 



The Importance of Self Inventory in Finding Your Ideal Job, by Dick Bolles


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtpCubh3JB0 

3:17




Deciding What to Do 5 Years from Now | Dick Bolles | Talks at Google


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtpCubh3JB0 

3:15




Becoming an Information Expert, by Dick Bolles, author of What Color Is Your Parachute


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at0p2FiJoXY 

4:53




Deciding What to Do 5 Years from Now | Dick Bolles | Talks at Google


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeP6Pm3Xf-8 

32:38




Book

What Color Is Your Parachute?: Your Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career Success

https://www.amazon.com/What-Color-Your-Parachute-Meaningful/dp/1984861204/ 

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