What's Your Type of Career?: Find Your Perfect Career by Using Your Personality Type

by Donna Dunning

Book Overview

The best-selling career guide, now in a revised second edition

Match Your Personality Type to Your Perfect Career-and Find Success

The simple truth is that to be happy and successful in your work, you need a career that not only matches your interests but fits your personality type as well. In this approachable book, author Donna Dunning uses the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator(R) (MBTI(R)) to introduce eight distinct ways of working...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1857885538
• ISBN13: 9781857885538
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

My View About This Career Path Book

When someone has a difficult time deciding what he/she wants to do career-wise, then this book should help them make a decision, because it is based on their personality. Otherwise, they're left just possibly clueless as to what to do for a job to support themselves and/or a family.

Very insightful!

This book was recommended to me by my company's HR training manager and it is brilliant! Written for people who know their Myers-Briggs type, it describes the sort of work environment your type would thrive in along a continuum; meaning, it allows for a range of behavior and is flexible enough to avoid rigidly defining you and your options, yet it's defined enough to be helpful. I know that many people consider Myers-Briggs to be hocus-pocus, but if you found the typing to be insightful, you'll find the book to be doubly so. For someone who is job hunting -- or in my case, considering switching careers -- it really gave me a new perspective on how I work, and what works best for me, along with suggested fields and suggested positions in those fields. One caveat, this book isn't a job-hunters guide. It just helps you find your direction, and reminds you of your work preferences to guide you when you are considering a potential job.

Best Career Book I've Read

I'm 32 and in the midst of a career change which has involved extensive self assessment. Prior to reading this book I visited several career counselors, took the PAR Self Directed Assessment and Myers Briggs assessment and read numerous books on careers. This book really surprized me. At first I was skeptical but after going through it I was very impressed with the personality typing system and how well my personality type matched me. The only warning that I would have is that since the listing of the possible careers are in broad categories a person needs to spend some time learning about different careers by talking to people in them, reasearching and shadowing at the workplaces before jumping ahead. For example, I might be excellent as a dental researcher but hate the routine of the day to day practice of dentistry. However, this is a great book and I recommend it highly as a starting point in any career search."Know Thyself"

Very interesting!

I really liked looking up the occupations best for me. One of those listed as best for my personality is also the one I'm currently in, so, there you go. For those who just don't know what to do with their lives, this is a really fun read.

Highly recommended for those about to enter the workforce

In What's Your Type Of Career?: Unlock The Secrets Of Your Personality To Find Your Perfect Career Path, psychologist, adult learning specialist, and certified human resources professional Donna Dunning bases her invaluable advice and insights on the "Myers-Briggs Type Indicator" and offers easy-t-use worksheets to guide the reader in determining their specific personality type. Then Dunning goes on to provide in-depth, highly-relevant, jargon-free, "reader friendly" descriptions and explanations of the eight "Ways of Working" and explores the work preferences, strengths, areas for development, learning, teamwork, and leadership styles of each type. Practical suggestions are made regarding the types of work that attract each personality type and guide the reader to match their personality type with the appropriate career path. What's Your Type Of Career? is highly recommended for those about to enter the workforce for the first time, those who are re-entering the workforce after a sustained absence, and those wanting to improve their existing career prospects in this age of corporate globalization, downsizing, and technology driven worker mobility.