Books : Do What You Are : Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type--Revised and Updated Edition Featuring E-careers for the 21st Century
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 155.264
EAN: 9780316880657
ISBN: 0316880655
Label: Little, Brown and Company
Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: April 01, 2001
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Sales Rank: 23835
Studio: Little, Brown and Company
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For over 10 years Do What You Are has helped hundreds of thousands of people find the job that suits their personality type best. It lists the wide array of occupations that are popular with your personality type, including todays hottest career tracks in growth areas such as e-commerce, biotechnology, new media, and telecommunications. Throughout, the authors provide savvy career advice and highlight the strengths and pitfalls of each personality type with real-life examples.
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I bought this book as an additional Myers Briggs resource. I know it was designed to help people choose a job, but it is a great resource on personalities in general.
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Having recently taken an authentic MBTI (Myers-Briggs) assessment and experiencing some "what should I do when I grow up" anxiety lately (I'm 31, haha), this book was a great tool for my search. A large portion of the book is spent determining your MBTI type and then digging deeper into your type and what it actually means. There are 16 different types, and each type has its own chapter, so if you're put back by the size of the book (really not that big anyway), don't worry...you probably will just read about your own type. If after reading this book, you're still a little unclear about what you want to do...check out "I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was" as an awesome follow-up.
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Great insight for those who might want an idea of what they might want to do in life!
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I recruit, train, and develop independent contractors and employees. To develop a person costs me personal time and money.
When I started it was luck, not science. Now, job matching is much easier because I understand this information.
Now, we have a real discussion in interviews and not a turn my weakness into strengths - hide and seek.
When an applicant already knows it we are near Win/Win or No Fit.
If the applicant has no idea, it is a perfect screening line of question.
With this information both the employer and employee are involved in discovering the best fit. If a Fit both understand how to capitalize on strengths and minimize weaknesses. If No Fit no one is disappointed by the usefulness of the information.
If you do not know your type - good luck in finding happiness in work. You can waste you life thinking this time will be better or you can find the right fit.
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There is a very important section on what's called your Hierarchy of Functions that I believe is flawed. It works for Extrovert types (Exxx), but not for Introvert types (Ixxx). So if you're E, the book is fantastic. But if you're I, things go a little (not totally) haywire. You'll be able to tell because the description of your tendencies will be close, but a little off, and recommended career options won't seem to quite resonate with you. So you're left having to puzzle things out more on your own. Below is the flaw, if I'm not mistaken (a big if).
First, some background info: Your personality type determines your Hierarchy of Functions. A function is a type-preference, the relevant ones being S/N (concerning information intake) and T/F (concerning decision criteria). Your Hierarchy is some combination of these four functions. The hierarchy of functions is STATED to be in this order:
(1) Dominant (greatest strength)
(2) Auxiliary (secondary strength)
(3) Third (secondary weakness, the converse of Auxiliary)
(4) Fourth (greatest weakness, the converse of Dominant).
For example, if your personality type is ESFJ, then your Hierarchy is FSNT. If your personality type is ENTP, your Hierarchy is NTSF.
(Sidebar: From what I gather, your dominant function is determined by the last letter in your personality type (J/P) which basically concerns how you confront uncertainty, ambiguity, unknowns. For J's, dominant ... Read More
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