What's Your Type of Career?: Unlock the Secrets of Your Personality to Find Your Perfect Career Path - Softcover

Dunning, Donna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0891061541 ISBN 13: 9780891061540

Publisher: UNKNO, 2001

Synopsis

Helps you discover what will most satisfy you in a job that meshes with your natural way of working.

About this title

About the Author

Donna Dunning is an award-winning psychologist, teacher, certified human resources professional, and director of a consulting business specializing in the areas of adult learning, career development, and performance. She has more than twenty years of experience helping thousands of adults successfully manage career transitions and is the author of Learning Your Way and Ready-Set-Go.

From the Inside Flap

The simple truth is that to be happy and successful in your work, you need a career that not only matches your interests but fits your personality as well. In this practical, approachable book, author Donna Dunning offers an easy five-step planning process that provides the links between your personality and the career that is right for you. With exercises, checklists, tips, and strategies, she introduces eight distinct ways of working to help you discover your own natural approach to the world of work.

Are you a Responder, Explorer, Expeditor, or Contributor? Or an Assimilator, Visionary, Analyzer, or Enhancer? As you take stock of your work style for communicating, solving problems, make decisions, leading, and being led, you will discover how to use your personal preferences and strengths to find your best career path, manage transitions, and succeed in your chosen career.

Reviews

Dunning, a psychologist specializing in career issues, identifies 16 personality types using the Jungian-based Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Self-evaluation focuses on several areas: processing information by linear thinking vs. wondering how others will be affected; focusing on facts vs. intuition; the preference to take immediate action vs. the preference to wait and deliberate. Once people identify their type, Dunning (Learning Your Way) proposes eight corresponding "Ways of Working" that suggest promising fields and positions for different personalities. Although Dunning's writing is clear and accessible, readers may have difficulty identifying their primary personality type. Still, her answer to this problem is persuasive: "one core preference will define your characteristic approach to work. The other approaches will be used in support of, and secondary to, your preferred approach." First-timers as well as those familiar with self-assessment tests will find the final two chapters the most practical. "Taking Stock" and "Shaping Your Career" focus on options such as part-time work in making a career change or determining which variables matter most, from salary and job stability to handling a variety of tasks, helping society, etc. (Apr.)Forecasts: Lacking a fresh approach or a well-known author, this book will have an uphill battle against more established books on this subject, such as Paul D. Tieger and Barbara Barron-Tieger's Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type. Still, a glowing cover endorsement by Richard Bolles, author of What Color Is Your Parachute, along with planned radio and print campaigns may give it an initial boost.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: UNKNO
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0891061541
• ISBN 13: 9780891061540
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368