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🗓️ 11 April 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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As you may know, the world’s most popular and bestselling career book is What Color Is Your Parachute?, which has been in print for more than 50 years and was written by the late Richard Bolles.

Now available is a new book called, What Color Is Your Parachute For College: Pave Your Path from Major to Meaningful Work.

It’s described as the only guide students need for making the most of their college career from start to finish. It was adapted from Bolles’ bestseller and authored by our guest on this episode, award-winning counselor and career coach Katharine Brooks. She is the Evans Family Executive Director of the Career Center for Vanderbilt University.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Laura Owens, and I'm Jan Black.
0:15.9	As you may know, the world's most popular and best-selling career book is What Color is Your Parachute, which has been in print for more than 50 years and was written by the late Richard Bowles.
0:27.2	Now available is a new book called What Color Is Your Parachute for College?
0:32.5	Pave Your Path from Major to Meaningful Work.
0:35.7	It's described as the only guide that students need for making
0:39.5	the most of their college careers from start to finish. And it was adapted from Bowles' best-selling book
0:44.9	and authored by our guest on this episode, award-winning counselor and career coach, Catherine Brooks.
0:50.8	She's the Evans family executive director of the Career Center for Vanderbilt University.
0:56.4	Catherine, thank you so much for joining us at such an interesting time. Thank you so much for
1:02.1	asking me. It's been an honor to work on this book. Talk to us about the legacy of what color
1:07.3	is your parachute and how you came to write the college edition?
1:16.0	Sure. Well, the legacy, of course, as you mentioned, is the book does go back about 50 years.
1:20.8	And Richard Bowles was actually a minister at the time. And this was back in the 1970s. He was laid off during an economic crunch period. And he formed a small group of other ministers who were being laid off.
1:29.6	And that's where this all evolved from. He started creating materials and things to
1:35.0	use to help people find jobs. It expanded to some of his parishioners and others. And it all
1:42.7	gelled into a book finally through 10 Speed Press. So it's got this long
1:49.3	legacy and this addition of a college book, I think, just continues that legacy. And that's
1:54.9	what's been exciting about it. And tell us more about who this book is for. Well, it's really for anyone who's in college, getting ready to go to college, or even perhaps
2:05.4	just got out of college, because there's a lot of information about opportunities that still
2:11.1	remain even after you've graduated, whether that's doing some kind of a postgraduate internship or a gap experience or graduate school or other activities like that.
2:22.9	How has all of that change, the landscaping changed for internships after college jobs or anything really with the pandemic?
2:32.7	Well, the landscape changes constantly and and the pandemic is our latest force of change, so to speak.
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