Paul D. Tieger
Author of Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type
About the Author
Paul D. Tieger is a nationally recognized expert in Personality Type. Over nearly twenty years, he has trained thousands of career counselors, outplacement consultants & human resource specialists. (Bowker Author Biography)
Works by Paul D. Tieger
Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type (1992) 1,463 copies, 21 reviews
The Art of SpeedReading People: How to Size People Up and Speak Their Language (1999) 330 copies, 1 review
Nurture by Nature: Understand Your Child's Personality Type - And Become a Better Parent (1997) — Author — 232 copies, 1 review
Just Your Type: Create the Relationship You've Always Wanted Using the Secrets of Personality Type (2000) 127 copies
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- Paul D. Tieger is an internationally recognized expert in Personality Type. The Founder and first Director of The New England Type Institute, Paul has personally trained thousands of managers, team leaders, HR professionals, career consultants, psychologists, attorneys, and educators.
Over the past 20 years, Paul has consulted with dozens of insurance companies, financial institutions, law firms, colleges, utility companies, governmental offices, hospitals, and a variety of other types of businesses. He has developed innovative programs in such areas as team-building, management and sales training, career development, succession planning, conflict resolution, and communication enhancement.
Paul pioneered the application of Personality Type as a tool to assist trial attorneys in selecting and communicating with jurors, and has worked on dozens of high-profile civil and criminal cases, including the first physician-assisted suicide trial of Dr. Jack Kevorkian.
Paul has appeared on scores of radio and television programs, including Geraldo Live and CNN’s Business Unusual, and has been profiled in The New York Times. As a result of his jury consulting experiences, Paul wrote The Art of SpeedReading People – a system for helping all people quickly size others up and speak their language.
Paul holds degrees in Psychology and Organizational Behavior.
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Do What You Are : Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type--Revised and Updated by Paul D. Tieger
"If you spend twenty years at a job you don't enjoy, you may end up not only out of touch with your natural interests but -- even worse -- with a distorted view of your own competence." (quote from 'do what you are')
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 show more 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. show less
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 show more 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. show less
I'll revisit this again for my next career crisis.
I came out as an INFJ. (Teacher-Nun-Poet-Novelist-Interpreter-Literary Agent-Editor-Librarian-Marketer-Costume Designer-Curator-Project Manager)
This was helpful in the sense you can feel good about what makes you tick. Evaluate how your working self relates to the working world as it will help you focus on where and what kind of environment you will thrive in.
Now back to becoming Queen of cover letter.
I came out as an INFJ. (Teacher-Nun-Poet-Novelist-Interpreter-Literary Agent-Editor-Librarian-Marketer-Costume Designer-Curator-Project Manager)
This was helpful in the sense you can feel good about what makes you tick. Evaluate how your working self relates to the working world as it will help you focus on where and what kind of environment you will thrive in.
Now back to becoming Queen of cover letter.
Not very practicable for a mid-career change, but it is excellent for high school & college students. It doesn't make decisions for specific jobs, but identifies individual strengths and weaknesses, and various professions to consider when selecting colleges it classes.
Do What You Are: Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type: Discovering Your Perfect Career... (Do What You Are: Discover the ... You Through the Secrets of Personality Type) by Paul D. Tieger
Waste of money. Go to 16personalities.com and get 90% of this info for free. Then do a job search for 50 job titles and throw in some stories about other people that you won’t care about and BOOM! You’ve just written this book. Congrats.
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 show more have done on this one. Nice con. You got me. show less
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 show more have done on this one. Nice con. You got me. show less
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