What Color is Your Parachute?

Dick Bolles—more formally known as Richard Nelson Bolles—is credited with founding the modern career counseling field, and is often described as the field's #1 celebrity.

He is the author of What Color Is Your Parachute? A Practical Guide For Job-Hunters and Career Changers, 2016, the most popular job-hunting book in the world. The book has sold more than 10,000,000 copies to date, and is dramatically updated, reshaped and rewritten, every year. It has been translated into 20 languages and is used in 26 countries.

TIME chose What Color Is Your Parachute? as one of the 100 All-TIME best and most influential non-fiction books published since 1923.

The U.S. Dept. of Labor chose What Color Is Your Parachute as one of The Books That Have Shaped the World of Work, since 1758.

Dick has been featured in Forbes, The Economist, Business Week, Fortune, Money, Fast Company, and TIME.  He is a member of Mensa and SHRM, and has been called “the most recognized job hunting authority on the planet.” (San Francisco Chronicle) and “America’s top career expert” (AARP)   

He has four grown children: Stephen, Sharon, Gary and Mark (deceased).  He and his beloved wife Marci live in the San Francisco East Bay.