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What's Your Type of Career?: Unlock the Secrets of Your Personality to Find Your Perfect Career Path | 
 enlarge | Author: Donna Dunning
Publisher: Davies-Black Publishing
Category: Book
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 52875
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 368
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6.8 x 0.9
ISBN: 0891061541
Dewey Decimal Number: 158.6
EAN: 9780891061540
ASIN: 0891061541
Publication Date: April 25, 2001
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Product Description
We spend at least one-third of our lives working. But what makes work meaningful and rewarding? Career expert Donna Dunning writes that work is satisfying if it interests you and allows you to do the things you enjoy. But she also notes that work that is interesting and enjoyable for one person may be totally unsuitable for another. She states that is because of people's differing personalities. Whether you are just starting out, looking for a change, exploring business ideas, or thinking about retirement activities, WHAT'S YOUR TYPE OF CAREER? will show readers how to find work in that perfect career. Dunning's advice is based on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (r) assessment. The first portion of the book uses powerful, but easy-to-use worksheets to guide the reader in determining their personality type. The second and third parts are in-depth, highly-relevant, jargon-free descriptions and explanations of the eight "Ways of Working." They explore the work preferences, strengths, areas for development, learning, teamwork, and leadership styles of each type. They provide practical suggestions for types of work that attract each personality type and guide the reader to match their personality type with the appropriate career path. The eight "Ways of Working" are:
Extraverted "Ways of Working"
1. Responders: Act and adapt
2. Explorers: Innovate and initiate
3. Expeditors: Direct and decide
4. Contributors: Communicate and cooperate
Introverted "Ways of Working"
5. Assimilators: Specialize and stabilize
6. Visionaries: Interpret and implement
7. Analyzers: Examine and evaluate
8. Enhancers: Care and connect The process outlined in WHAT'S YOUR TYPE OF CAREER? is very useful to anyone's pursuit of the perfect career. It will help readers manage transitions, enrich career choices, and move into opportunities that will best suit their unique talents by showing how to:
* Use natural strengths and skills based on personality type to expand and enhance work
* Become more aware of what makes work more fulfilling
* Make better career choices to suit motivations and preference
* Be better prepared for the changing future by understanding their natural "Way of Working"
* Identify areas for growth
* Initiate personal growth
* Heighten career satisfaction Beyond the individual level, companies want to ensure that they are using the strengths of their workers. WHAT'S YOUR TYPE OF CAREER? can provide a quick and effective way to do that. If a current HR program does not look at individual differences as strengths and areas for improvement, they can use this tool to improve their process.
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 Not very helpful July 30, 2008
Maritsa Darmandzhyan (Tujunga, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Get "Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through t... by Paul D. Tieger $12.91" It has a much better descriptions of the personality types and more career choices to choose from than this book. This book is not very well written.
 My View About This Career Path Book August 18, 2006
Fern G. Swecker (Spokane Valley, WA USA)
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
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! September 7, 2005
A Life-long Learner (Washington, DC)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
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 April 5, 2003
Allen J. Botnick (Elizabeth, NJ)
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
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"
 Not complete, but better than anything else February 18, 2002
20 out of 22 found this review helpful
This book is the best MBTI career book I've found. It has none of the breezey overproduced style of the Tieger books. Dunning conveys information in rational categories with a friendly manner. The reason I didn't give her book more stars is that Dunning (like all the other authors who use the MBTI approach) fails to help the reader to decide on a career because she merely lists compatible jobs at the end. Sure, they are grouped into "professional", "business", "Art and design", etc but what does "art and design" have to do with "business"? It makes more sense to group jobs into personality based catergories. It's also frustrating that the author does not go from a type's description to an analysis of that type and a particular job. Dunning does have lengthy anecdotes about representatives of each type but these stories are not enough. This failure to connect personality type to a job characterizes all the personality based career guides. This situation makes me believe they don't know much about careers or personality types. Please, someone write a real MBTI career counseling book!
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