What's Your Type of Career?: Find Your Perfect Career by Using Your Personality Type - Softcover

Dunning, Donna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857885538 ISBN 13: 9781857885538

Publisher: Nicholas Brealey, 2010

Synopsis

Match Your Personality Type to Your Perfect Career-and Find Success!

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 type as well. In this approachable book, author Donna Dunning uses the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) to introduce eight distinct ways of working.

Encouraging you to reflect on your own natural preferences-using checklists, exercises, strategies and tips-What's Your Type of Career? provides all the tools you need to discover your own natural preferences and find your ideal career. Are you a Contributor, Expeditor, Explorer or Responder? An Analyzer, Assimilator, Enhancer or Visionary? An Extravert or an Introvert? If you identify yourself as an Extravert and a Responder, you tend to like action, scenarios that are rapidly changing and are not inclined toward a desk job. A profession as an emergency worker, a fi re fighter or a police officer may be for you.

This best-selling career guide-now in a fully updated second edition-has been expanded to include the training and educational requirements of a variety of different occupations, and highlights those most in demand. It also includes details on developing type differences later in life, advice for balancing your work and personal life and many, many more preference-based career suggestions.

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From the Publisher

Praise abounds for WHAT'S YOUR TYPE OF CAREER?

"This is the best written, most insightful, and most helpful book I have ever read about using 'type' in the workplace. Donna Dunning's knowledge of type popularized by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (r) tool is encyclopedic!"--Richard N. Bolles, author of What Color Is Your Parachute?

"Donna Dunning offers new and helpful assistance to anyone who wants to base a career on who he or she really is."--William Bridges, author of Transitions, Managing Transitions, and Creating You & Co.

"WHAT'S YOUR TYPE OF CAREER? is packed full of information about how our personalities mesh (or don't) with our work choices. It will help readers understand themselves and make authentic career choices that build on their strengths, skills, preferences, and values. This is a must read for anyone who uses the MBTI (r) instrument."--Robin A Sheerer, President, Career Entreprises, Inc., and author of No More Blue Mondays

"The key to self-acceptance and dealing effectively with others is knowing our natural instinctive style. Dunning takes us to a new level in exploring our type and relating it directly to career choices. This is must reading for adults in the career change and renewal process."--Helen Harkness, President, Career Design Associates, Inc., and author of The Career Chase and Don't Stop the Career Clock

"Anyone who has taken the MBTI (r) instrument will find these in-depth interpretations extremely thorough and highly relevant to careers."--Richard L. Knowdell, President, Career Research & Testing, Inc., and author of Building a Career Development Program

"This is the most thorough explanation of personality types you will find. Dunning provides useful terminology to express MBTI (r) typology, offers clarifying quotes and checklists, and suggests tips for action appropriate for each type. Extremely useful for ongoing career management."--Peggy Simonsen, Managing Vice President, Talent Management, Right Management Consultants; and author of Career Compass

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Nicholas Brealey
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1857885538
• ISBN 13: 9781857885538
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 228