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If you know anything about your meyers-briggs score, don’t fool yourself into thinking this will help you find a next career. It will instead tell you what you already know and then list jobs that sound like they would fit a type. No research seems to have done on this one. Nice con. You got me.
People looking for potential careers would benefit from this, but there is also some interesting self reflection that can come as a result of defining oneself in their terms.
Do What You Are helps you identify your personality type then shows a few more exercises to make sure you got it correct and then tells you what your ideal career choices would be. It then helps you to make a practical approach to the career of your choice.
Honestly, it's nice to have as an library book but I am so glad I didn't buy it. If you are aimless, this book will be perfect for you. However, if you know or have a clear picture of what you want to do then Do What You Are is nothing but a mirror. I have plenty of mirrors.
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Y2Ash | 18 other reviews | Apr 16, 2014 |
Y2Ash | 18 other reviews | Apr 16, 2014 | Do What You Are helps you identify your personality type then shows a few more exercises to make sure you got it correct and then tells you what your ideal career choices would be. It then helps you to make a practical approach to the career of your choice.
Honestly, it's nice to have as an library book but I am so glad I didn't buy it. If you are aimless, this book will be perfect for you. However, if you know or have a clear picture of what you want to do then Do What You Are is nothing but a mirror. I have plenty of mirrors.
Do What You Are helps you identify your personality type then shows a few more exercises to make sure you got it correct and then tells you what your ideal career choices would be. It then helps you to make a practical approach to the career of your choice.
Honestly, it's nice to have as an library book but I am so glad I didn't buy it. If you are aimless, this book will be perfect for you. However, if you know or have a clear picture of what you want to do then Do What You Are is nothing but a mirror. I have plenty of mirrors.
Choosing a career based on personality type is not a new concept; in fact, the first edition of DO WHAT YOU ARE was released in 1992 (and I can actually remember reading it when I was a junior in high school). In this, the fourth edition, hopefully even more teens will be exposed to this great resource.
The authors, both experts in personality type and career development, put forth the idea that choosing a career path based on your individual personality will be beneficial to your success. For those worried that discovering your personality type is a difficult process, don't despair, because the authors make it quite easy.
There are four dimensions to personality type:
Whether you are extroverted or introverted.
Whether you notice things by sensing or intuition.
Whether you make decisions by thinking or feeling.
Whether you prefer to live by judging or perceiving.
Once you've discovered the answer to each of these four questions, you'll be able to discover which of the sixteen possible personality types you fall into. Once you do, you can quickly skip to the relevant section in the book.
In my case, my personality is ESTJ - or extroverted, sensing, thinking, judging. According to the authors of DO WHAT YOU ARE, my strengths lie in organization, being objective, working alone, and being a good decision maker. My weaknesses are also outlined, and include impatience with those who don't follow procedures, a tendency to overrun people, and difficulty listening to opposing viewpoints. Some suggestions for careers, based on my personality type, are as a teacher, government employee, sales, supervisor, or a manager.
Of course the above is not a full list of the strengths, weaknesses, or recommended career choices for those whose personality type is ESTJ - the above is merely a sampling. But I can say with truth that DO WHAT YOU ARE can be a great resource for those beginning their search for a career choice. I can agree that ESTJ is definitely my personality type (faults and all!) and have no doubt that this book has the power to help everyone looking to correctly match their strengths to the perfect career.
Then the heart of the book takes you through three tools for identifying peoples preferences: type preference as a whole, temperament, and extraverted/introverted feeling. After putting all of these together, the authors present you with some case studies where you use the various techniques to try to identify the types of the people involved. They are simple but useful.
The book closes with some detailed advice for interacting with the four different temperaments in general and then specifically the four individual type preferences within a given temperaments.
The final chapter is titled "How Will I Ever Look at People the Same Way Again?" Truthfully, you won't. You will notice things about people, and hopefully these things will help you improve your interactions with the people you come in contact with.
If you ever feel you are "not cut out" for your job, it would be worthwhile to check this book out. It helped me evaluate my job and focus in on the parts of my job that are making me unhappy; i.e. the things I have to do that I am not very good at. It also offered ideas for alternative jobs that would better suit my interests and talents.
First you start out by taking the Myers-Briggs personality test, then there is an analysis for every possible result, giving you an overview of your basic personality type and what jobs are generally best for you. Then it goes on to describe the hierarchy of functions; basically by the age 25 everyone has developed their top two functions (the dominant and auxiliary) and can rely on them in everyday life. Then we go on to develop our other two functions, and then later we develop our opposite functions; i.e. if you are Introverted, you start developing your Extroverted side, and later in life (60s and beyond) you've developed completely (and are ready to tackle any job! ha.)
I used to look at some people and really envy their ability to think things thru logically with such ease. What I realize now is that they have that as their dominant trait (lucky!) and have been working on it all their life, developing and perfecting it. I, on the other hand, am a natural born Feeler, just beginning to develop my Thinking function, so, while it seems to those Thinking people that my progress is slow compared to theirs, my Feeling function is leaps and bounds ahead of theirs. Unfortunately in our world, Thinking is more highly regarded than Feeling, especially in the world of academia, so I am better suited for more creative pursuits, where I can express my Feeling thru art.
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The book looks large and daunting, but I finished it in basically half a weekend. The cover is bright and friendly and the insides are easy to read. And since there are 16 different personality types explored, and you don't have to read about all of them (once you've pinned yours down), there are quite a few pages that are skippable.
A suggestion: go online and find a "personality test" or two and take it (them). That way you'll have a better idea about your personality preferences when you get to that section of the book.