This book is should become a comprehensive "starting point" to anyone who are seeking for a job. This book will give you an easy to do steps to find out what kind of job you that you want. It will provide you basic thing to do in finding a job that you've been dream on. This small book will become "a huge shoulder to rely on" within your job hunting journey. Unfortunetly this book is not equipped with a comprehensive guide concerning today's job hunting online.

Interesting jobs are not available in classified. Firstly most jobs available are not advertized. Second, you will work much better in a position that suits your abilities. This is precisely the starting point of the PIE method developed in this book.

Especially for long-term unemployed managers (as we have in Europe), one needs to pick targets, and approach them with a methodology to discover job opportunities after listening to the company's needs. Thus you are sure to value your experience rather than your knowledge, which can possibly lead you to change domain and/or job. Based on the match between one's strengths and a firm's hidden positions, the approach of Daniel POROT is destined to entrepreneurs and people who are chasing with method.

On the way, the process helps the person to rebuild confidence (part of the recommendations involve working out the approach of target companies with other job-seekers). The approach proved very useful to scores of job-hunter! s who questioned their own capabilities on the way. It works also fine for self-outplacement.

The method proposed by D. Porot is based on methodologies developed by Research institutions (such as Standford Univ.) along the years with large corporations. So one must consider the book as the surface of the iceberg, and be sure that the hidden part is solid, even if the methods described seem good-sense. This book helps to have a strategic approach, and at the same time it is full of pragmatic advices to develop each phase of contact with the company you intend to work for.

Yes, you guessed right, I used it! And I recommend it to my relatives, it works!

As a big fan of "Three Boxes of Life" and "What Color is Your Parachute", I was extremely disappointed in this little book. Contrary to his other books, Bolles seems to be suggesting that the reader's path in life is preordained by God and therefore he or she need do nothing but try to "recall" or remember why God sent them from heaven to this earth in the first place.

If the reader grew up in a conservative Christian religion, many of the terms, phrases, and concepts will be familiar. But just as any uneducated and inexperienced preacher can toss around religious terms in a sermon yet never get to the heart of the matter, so does Bolles leave the reader wondering what all that babble was about.

Richard Bolles has done a great disservice to his many followers with this book. Not only does he NOT define "mission" so any intelligent person can understand what he is talking about, he also does not suggest "how" the reader could discover his mission other than to wait for one's "calling". But then Bolles doesn't bother to explain how to identify one's "calling".

Which reminded me of the really sick old joke about the man who hid high up in a tree and began talking to a farmer plowing his field. Believing that this was his "calling" from God, the poor farmer dropped his plow and ran off to do the bidding of the jokester in the tree. How sad that such an insightful man as Richard Bolles seems to be advising people to not use their reason and intelligence but rather to wait for the spirit (or something else) to call them.

If the reader is not a fundamentalist conservative Christian as strictly defined by the Moral Majority, don't bother with this book. It will be a complete waste of time and money. If the reader is of the conservative Christian faith, just open a Bible and read the first verse your finger touches. However this verse is interpreted as revealing one's mission in life, it will probably give more direction than this book.

Before commenting on this book, let me note that versions of this have appeared in past editions of What Color Is Your Parachute? So, if you have a copy of that book, check it out to see if an appendix on setting your life mission exists there. Then, you can evaluate the book's content for yourself.

In this gift edition, the author has added many woodcuts and blank pages to what is an essay with elaborations about finding your mission in life.

In the essay, Mr. Bolles answers a question posed to him about the diagram in The Three Boxes of Life in terms of what a personal mission looks like.

Mr. Bolles explains that to him mission is a religious concept that cannot be discussed without considering an individual's relationship to God. With apologies and respect to other religions, Mr. Bolles points out that he is a Christian and can only effectively describe a mission from the Christian perspective. Those who are not religious, or not Christians, will probably not find this approach to a mission to be as valuable as a more secular approach.

Mr. Bolles also focuses his thinking more on a job-oriented mission than most people would consider. If you want something broader, you might find this approach a little too narrow. Mr. Bolles points out that there are many processes for arriving at a mission. He is merely describing the one he knows best, not proclaiming it to be the best.

This book will be most helpful to someone who is a Christian, and is spiritually troubled because of discomfort with her or his job or life role. If you know someone like that, you may have found an ideal Christmas or birthday present.

Mr. Bolles describes your mission has having three components, which you need to develop sequentially.

The first is simply being conscious of God. The second is to do good works. Both of these mission components are shared by all Christians.

The third component is unique to you. Combine your talent and what you love to do in order to serve God's purpose.

To pursue these three components, you are warned that you will have to unlearn some common ideas. For example, you should feel gratitude towards God, rather than pride in yourself. When choices come up, be sure to consider the alternatives and pick the one that will add to love and goodness. Your mission will not be dictated by God, rather you will use your free will to select one with Him "where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet."

The book ends with a brief list of suggested reading, and lots of ads for Mr. Bolles's other books. I found the ads to be in appropriate for such a book, and graded it down one star accordingly.

Overall, I found the book to be simple, moving, and consoling. I think most Christians would feel greater access to Divine guidance through the experience of reading and reflecting on these simple, but powerful, suggestions. Although the book will not take you a long time to read, it may take you a lifetime to live.

Where does your work lack deep gladness in meeting the world's deep hunger

If you aren't "into" God, you may not find this book useful. On the other hand if you at least have an open mind, you will find that this God-centered book respects all forms of religion and draws on universal religious beliefs to give direction. The writer just happens to be Christian.

The premise of the book is that nothing can be sorted out in life until you have your spiritual life in order. Then the rest will follow.

As someone who has a strong belief in God, I found this book to be an honest guide to finding a focus in life. It isn't the only way, but it ring true for me.

It isn't cut and dry and interpretation by the individual reader will give this book value.