My First Choice for Career and Self Development Counseling

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	• Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type Paul D. Tieger, Barbara Barron Little, Brown and Company, 2007 - 416 pages average customer review:based on 128 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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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.

Reviewed by: Jennifer Wardrip, aka "The Genius"

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Very helpful book

As a high school teacher and mother of a high schooler, this book is very helpful in helping to determine your personality strengths and how it correlates to careers.

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Advisable information

Well this book is good but not good enough. Because it truly puts you in a category and provides you suitable careers according to your personality type, i.e., what careers you'd possibly find enjoyable based on the functioning of your brain.

But each type offers varied fields of career. For example, as in my INFP type, you could be an actor as well as a psychological counselor. That means you have to pounder into what your abilities and interests are before you can find the right career.

Thus I worked with "Discover What You Are Best At" by Linda Gale, which shows your aptitudes(abilities) to narrow the focus. And now I've found the right direction thanks to both books.

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INFP - "Still Waters Run Deep"

I don't have to make apologies for shortcomings anymore... that's how I felt when I finished reading my portion of this book. It was so easy to identify which one I was: Introverted, Intuitive, Feeling, Perceiving... and I'm so proud to be me!! I like how it points out your strengths and weaknesses, because it gives you what you need to highlight the good things and work on the not-so-stellar characteristics, if you need to. At least I recognize that I'm not some weirdo... and to me, it helps you to see that there really is value in every person you meet... I'm not so quick to judge others now, and I look for their innate strengths and recognize that their weaknesses don't make them any less important in this big world of ours. It's fun to celebrate our differences! That's what makes the world go round!

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My First Choice for Career and Self Development Counseling

I borrowed the 2001 edition of this book from the library and was so impressed I purchased the 2007 edition as soon as it was released. I strongly recommend you purchase this book if you want to understand yourself and/or others better.

Readers of this book will have the opportunity to understand:

1. That there are others like the reader, and that what may seem like a character "flaw" of the reader is a totally normal way for the reader to behave. This alone can improve one's self esteem.
2. That there are four different types of temperament and how the temperament impacts relationships and decision-making.
3. Their own "Personality Type's" strengths and some problem areas.
4. Why the reader, and others, do things the way they do.
5. How things change as we grow older.

The authors list 10 specific situations that "define" what could be the "ultimate" job for each Personality Type. I have read these 10 situations to a number of high school students and young adults with differing types and in each case the person said, "yes - a job like that would be fantastic".

Then the book presents a number of occupations that the person might find enjoyable, gives suggestions on how the person should "Customize Your Job Search" (different for each type of person), various Pathways to Success, and Possible Pitfalls of the type.

They then have a chapter on "Putting It All Together" which has "Ten Steps to Creating a Personal Career Plan," complete with questions and blanks for the reader to complete.

This is a book that is worth buying and keeping on the shelf, after you have used it, for reference as you deal with others and have to deal with situations where understanding yourself and others might result in a better outcome than if you don't understand yourself and the people you are interacting with.

This book will help the reader, or the reader's friends, children, or relatives understand themselves and in fact enables them to improve their decision making process.

This book is not intended to be the final step in finding a career or job, but it is the best place I know of to start.

I have found it useful to use this book along with:

1. Nurture by Nature: How to Raise Happy, Healthy, Responsible Children Through the Insights of Personality Type to help myself and parents understand how to best deal with their children and to help the children to better understand themselves, and

2. Just Your Type: Create the Relationship You've Always Wanted Using the Secrets of Personality Type to better understand how to improve my interaction with the people I am counseling. I understand that this is a book designed to deal with, how shall I say it, possibly romantic relationships, but I have found that it helps me understand how my type can interact most productively with other types. I read the appropriate section just before having a meeting with a student and the student's mother and the meeting went much better than my previous meetings and I could clearly see how changes I made, in response to reading just two short sections of this book, really made a difference.

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