What Color Is Your Parachute 2018 by Richard N. Bolles copy

is best for you?” Those last two words demand that it be
you who “makes the call.”
A special word, here, to those considering paying any firm
that focuses on executives or people who make or would like to
make a high salary. (This warning is regarding firms, not
individual counselors.) If you are an executive you are
considered a fair target for any scam the mind can imagine. New
ones appear every year. I have consulted with the Federal Trade
Commission in Washington, and States Attorneys General over
the years, where they have described the scams to me in detail. I
have collected news items, done individual interviews with those
who got “taken,” and I wish I could tell you about individual
firms, but that’s not my job. Do your own research. If you are
considering signing up with any such firm, Google them first:
you will come across timely research about any firm. Example:
http://corcodilos.​com/​blog/​3219/​theladders-how-the-scamworks-2.
If you are too lazy to do this research, and
subsequently get “taken,” let me share the words a Scotsman
once said to me, when I got “taken”: “I’m sorry ya lost yer
money, but ya dinna do your homework.”
Now, for all my other readers: your dilemma is between
categories a and b on this page. How do you find an honest
counselor who knows what they’re doing, and can give you a
little bit of help, if you bog down in using this book, most
especially with chapter 8?
The first bright idea that will occur to you might be something
along the lines of “Well, I’ll just see who Bolles recommends.”
Sorry, no such luck. I rarely if ever recommend anyone. Some of
the coaches or counselors listed in the Sampler presented in
Appendix D try to claim that their very listing here constitutes a
recommendation from me. Oh, come on! They’re there because
they asked to be. I ask a few questions, but I don’t have time to
do any thorough research on them. This Sampler is more akin to
the Yellow Pages, than it is to Consumer Reports. Let me repeat
this—as I have for forty years now—and repeat it very loudly: