What Color Is Your Parachute? for College Pave Your Path from Major to Meaningful Work

An indispensable guide for college students, adapted from the world’s most popular and bestselling career book, What Color Is Your Parachute?

What Color Is Your Parachute? for College is the only guide you need for making the most of your college career from start to finish. Based on the bestselling job-hunting system in the world, created by Richard N. Bolles, it covers deciding on a major, designing a four-year plan with your interests and values in mind, creating impactful social media, developing a resume that stands out in a crowd, and making invaluable connections to the workplace.

Filled with introspective activities designed to bring out your unique skills and knowledge for interviews, resumes, and cover letters, this book provides easy-to-follow templates, rubrics, and lists to help you create the best possible social media platform, including LinkedIn. You’ll discover how to leverage your skills and experiences throughout college to start your future—whether that means landing a meaningful internship (and making the most of it!), finding your first job, continuing on to graduate school, or taking a gap year.

Whatever your future plans, What Color Is Your Parachute? for College will get you there.

Katharine Brooks, EdD, is the Evans Family Executive Director of the Career Center at Vanderbilt University. Prior to Vanderbilt, she was the executive director of the office of personal and career development at Wake Forest University, director of career services for the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas in Austin, and director of career services at Dickinson College, where she also taught courses on psychology. She is a licensed professional counselor, a nationally certified counselor, and a board certified coach. She provides career coaching and counseling to college students as well as alumni of all ages who are transitioning into new careers, or even retirement. She is the author of You Majored in What? Designing Your Path from College to Career and writes a blog, "Career Transitions," for Psychology Today.