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Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type |  | Authors: Paul D. Tieger, Barbara Barron
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
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Edition: 4 Rev Upd
Pages: 416
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.2
ISBN: 0316167266
Dewey Decimal Number: 155.264
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ASIN: 0316167266
Publication Date: March 21, 2007
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Already a classic in the genre, DoWhat You Are has helped hundreds of thousands of people find truly satisfying work. Do What You Are introduces Personality Type - how you process information, make decisions and interact with the world around you - and shows you which of the 16 types describes you best. It lists dozens of occupations that are popular with people of your type. Then, using workbook exercises and real-life examples to highlight the strengths and pitfalls of each personality type, it shows you step-by-step how touse your unique strengths to customise your job search,ensuring the best results in the shortest period of time.And if you plan to stay in your job, Do What You Are provides savvy advice for getting the most out of your current career.Every other career guide offers generic, one-size-fits-all advice. But because it is based on personality type, Do What You Are helps you determine what you need to be more successful and satisfied.
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 Career-Changer September 1, 2010
Christopher J. Cranford (Martinez, GA United States)
I purchased this book two years ago trying to get something for my brother, so that he could decide what he wanted to do for the rest of his life. I worked as a electronics technician in a factory after ten years in the Navy, and even had gotten a degree in computer database programming. I brought the book home over Thanksgiving, and started to read it one day because I was bored. I count that as was one of my luckiest moments ever.
Two years later I had put aside enough money to go to college full-time and finish a degree I always wanted. I so strongly believe in what this book says, it's changed my life. I hated my job, and hated the prospect of programming databases (I had to pick a degree that was work related, so my job would help pay for it. In addition, there's a lot of databases in the world to work on so I was looking at job security). I always believe That You Do What You Have To Do To, that you sucked it up and worked at where you got paid. I was taking anti-depressants and just hoping I could work one more year, year after year. I was so stressed out about work that my jaw would clench when I slept and I would bite my tongue, over and over again.
I read this book, and found out my personality type. I took the free online test to confirm what I thought. Then this book laid out for me exactly why I hated my job, and exactly why I would hate database programming. And it laid out what job I needed to be in, and why that job would make me happy.
I'm scared every now and then, because it's something new and I'm middle-aged now, and I'm used to having a job. But taking a year out to get a degree in something that will make me happy for the rest of my life will be worth it. Oh, and I've been off anti-depressants for a year now, and Doing Great!
This book won't say: "Mr. Smith, you need to work at an accounting firm for a food company in Dallas Texas." What it will say is: "Hey, you're the kind of person who loved working with numbers, and double-checking digits, here are several Fields of jobs for you, why you would like them, and why you wouldn't, and what other people who are like you are doing."
I'm actually bringing this book to college for some of the younger kids. I'm ordering another just to make sure I still have one. I wish I had had it when I was going, twenty years ago, and maybe my life would be a lot different.
If you are at all like me, get this book. Don't wonder what will make you happy, find it!
Must have May 23, 2010
Janine M. Friend (Michigan)
Great if you are just starting to figure out what career you want, choosing a college major or if trying to make a career change. Many friends have barrowed this book.
Good reference work April 21, 2010
Mark Youngkin (Pickerington, Ohio, USA)
I'm breaking a personal rule here. I haven't read this book cover to cover. It was a text for a grad school class and not all of the book was assigned (and I did enough of the assigned work to get through. So there.). But it strikes me as useful for managers who want to understand their people better. I believe in personality type and using it for team-building. In that context, this book would be very useful to have on hand.
 You Don't Need a Book To Do What You Love April 13, 2010
T. Holzel (Boston)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
What is it about self-help books like this one that makes them so attractive to otherwise intelligent readers? The overall idea is attractive: know yourself and go for what you know. But think for just a few moments: can hugely complex humans have their hugely complicated personalities carved-up into a mere 16 types? And please at least ask yourself the question--the elephant in the room--of why people of the same MBIT type can exhibit such vastly different personalities and career paths?
In my opinion, the entire personality quiz business has as much validity as graphology (hand writing analysis)--another subject beloved by busybodies who professed to analyze personality to the nth degree.
The fact is that MBTI is at best a mere scratch on the surface of analyzing functional personality. And personality itself is merely one component of life success. My impression of those who become enamored of MBIT is that they revel in analyzing others on the spot, and gloating in their understanding (and smug superiority) of them. It is a form of voodoo one-upmanship, a perfect cocktail party trick.
As an adult, ask yourself this: How can superficial self-analysis actually lead to understanding yourself? A large part of one's psyche is there expressly to prevent bad news from reaching your consciousness. Think how difficult it is to write your own resume--and yet how easy to correct someone else's. Why would reading a book on your own personality--so heavily guarded by the ego--be any more useful?
Yet the idea of a guide to choosing a career path that attempts to enumerate various key aspects of career satisfaction is appealing, thus the popularity of this any many other pop psychology treatise. But if you really want to know what you'd be best at, here's the real answer to choosing a satisfactory career: OPEN YOUR EYES to what you already like to do best. You've already led part of your adult life--so what parts of it are the ones you always seem to come back to? What are you already good at? What is your secret non-paying vice? Collecting butterflies? Building gas-powered model aircraft? Writing poems? What more self-help do you need than to listen to yourself--and go fully after what you love doing the most. O.K., so stamp collecting doesn't pay well. But if it's all about money, you don't need to know anything about personality-typing anyway, and so you don't need this (or any similar) book.
Thus, forget screwball personality classifications. Make a list of your own likes and skills. And launch your career from there--wherever that may take you.
Wonderful resource February 10, 2010
Josephine Berger (Burlington, Vermont United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For both career professionals, as well as individuals seeking career guidance, this is one of the best books out there for incorporating the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator for personality into career exploration. It's great comprehensive self-help guide for individuals beginning with the personality self-assessment and ending in enormous amounts of insightful information about each type, what to look for in a job and work environment. It even offers a variety of different jobs for each type to consider, broken into different career areas. I have used this book more than almost any other careers book and would highly recommend it to anyone.
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