Richard N. Bolles, who prodded, coached and inspired millions of job-seekers with his best-selling employment guide “What Color Is Your Parachute?” — a manual whose popularity, if not utility, was ...

In 1999, I had a revelation. I was a copy editor at the Boston Globe, angling for a promotion, when I realized that I was getting tired of working in news and needed a change. I bought the book “What ...