- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Little, Brown & Company; 3rd edition (3 May 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0316880655
- ISBN-13: 978-0316880657
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 18.8 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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This guide analyzes personality type by looking at how an individual processes information, makes decisions and interacts with the world around them, and shows which of the 16 "types" describes that person best. It then lists dozens of occupations that are popular with people of each type and, using workbook exercises and real-life examples to highlight the strengths and pitfalls of each personality type, gives step-by-step instructions on how to use your unique strengths to customize your job search, ensuring the best results in the shortest period of time. If you plan to stay in your job, "Do What You Are" provides savvy advice for getting the most out of your current career. Rather than offering generic, one-size-fits-all advice, this book aims to help you determine what you need to be more successful and satisfied.
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Both authors have trained thousands of career counsellors and human resource specialists over the past twenty years.
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43 of 46 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Nice idea, lost it's way though,
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This review is from: Do What You are: Discovering Your Perfect Career... (Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type) (Paperback)
You finish the first chapter delighted to have discovered your 'type'. You expentently read the next part and end up wondering if you were right in your self assessment from the first. And thus you proceed, each chapter prompting a re-read of all the previous ones, by confusing you with all sorts of contradictions and unhelpful generalisations. And your reward for this perseverance? A long and broad list of possible careers, 90% of which are repeated for the other three of the sixteen personality types you narrowed yourself down to, leading you to think that personality probably doesn't even matter. If, as I suspect, these career listings are taken from a database of what jobs people of certain types do (rather than what they should do), there's a fair chance they probably all need to read a good career guidance book.I hope this is just a bad 'Myers Briggs' style book. If it is representative of the theory, I'm far from convinced. As for the 'career' section, it is so generalised that most intelligent people will glean one thing from it: A wide variety of people could do the same job, but they may enjoy it for different reasons. How useful was that?
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Helped me understand how to play to my strengths,
By GlaswegianLassie "GlaswegianLassie" (Scotland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Do What You are: Discovering Your Perfect Career... (Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type) (Paperback)
I found this book helped me to accept that I'm better-suited for certain roles in my work, that we all have a different leaning in that regard, and not to feel bad about finding some things hard. It has improved choices I've made affecting my career. However, I don't think I'd have been ready for the book before I started work: you need a bit of experience to go on before you can assess your own behaviour in the workplace.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
"It Rocks!",
By Craig Jamieson (Cirencester, Gloucester United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Do What You are: Discovering Your Perfect Career... (Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type) (Paperback)
This is by far the best book I have read on the subject. Too often, school - and other - careers advisers seem able to do little more than ask the same old questions; "Do you want to work outside with your hands...in a team...dealing accurately with information?" etc etc. It's really not much help for those who know little about themselves or the kinds of jobs available out there. This book is an excellent step forward in the discovery process. I have lent it to friends who are often astounded by the accuracy of the personality profiles and the job recommendations and ask to borrow it again for reference. I have to say that some have not fitted well into the personality preferences and so have not benefited so much from it, but overall I would highly recommend it.
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