What Color is Your Parachute – the book
Posted by christinadulitz on June 13, 2010
Countless friends and colleagues have praised what Color is your Parachute and I finally checked it out of the library recently.
I admit that I skimmed the first two-thirds of the book, which was focused almost exclusively on the job search. While the tips seemed relevant, they were quite common sense. Having been through a job search not too long ago, I wasn’t especially interested in tips on how to interview or what to include in your resume.
The latter third of the book is more self-help focused, which is what I was most interested in. The book includes exercises which aim to help you identify your skills and interests. While most of the exercises felt a bit silly (such as creating a ‘flower diagram’, writing stories, multiple grids, then getting others’ feedback on their perceptions of your grids), the concepts were interesting.
While I didn’t follow the exercises, I did spend some time thinking about the core questions that were being posed.
For me, the book raised some basic self-awareness questions, but nothing extraordinary. I think this is a book I would have appreciated earlier in my career, or perhaps even during college.
