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Title: Do What You Are : Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type--Revised and Updated Edition Featuring E-careers for the 21st Century
ISBN: 0316880655
Author:
Paul D. Tieger
Barbara Barron-Tieger
Publicate Date: 2001-04-01
Publish: 2001-04-01
List Price: $18.95
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Format: Paperback
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1: Great book
I bought this book as an additional Myers Briggs resource. I know it was designed to help people choose a job, but it is a great resource on personalities in general.
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2: Great book for digging into your personality and relating it to your work.
Having recently taken an authentic MBTI (Myers-Briggs) assessment and experiencing some "what should I do when I grow up" anxiety lately (I'm 31, haha), this book was a great tool for my search. A large portion of the book is spent determining your MBTI type and then digging deeper into your type and what it actually means. There are 16 different types, and each type has its own chapter, so if you're put back by the size of the book (really not that big anyway), don't worry...you probably will just read about your own type. If after reading this book, you're still a little unclear about what you want to do...check out "I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was" as an awesome follow-up.
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3: Jobs for Certain Personality Types
Great insight for those who might want an idea of what they might want to do in life!
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4: The place to start your career.
I recruit, train, and develop independent contractors and employees. To develop a person costs me personal time and money.
When I started it was luck, not science. Now, job matching is much easier because I understand this information.
Now, we have a real discussion in interviews and not a turn my weakness into strengths - hide and seek.
When an applicant already knows it we are near Win/Win or No Fit.
If the applicant has no idea, it is a perfect screening line of question.
With this information both the employer and employee are involved in discovering the best fit. If a Fit both understand how to capitalize on strengths and minimize weaknesses. If No Fit no one is disappointed by the usefulness of the information.
If you do not know your type - good luck in finding happiness in work. You can waste you life thinking this time will be better or you can find the right fit.
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5: (Partially) Flawed Framework?
There is a very important section on what's called your Hierarchy of Functions that I believe is flawed. It works for Extrovert types (Exxx), but not for Introvert types (Ixxx). So if you're E, the book is fantastic. But if you're I, things go a little (not totally) haywire. You'll be able to tell because the description of your tendencies will be close, but a little off, and recommended career options won't seem to quite resonate with you. So you're left having to puzzle things out more on your own. Below is the flaw, if I'm not mistaken (a big if).
First, some background info: Your personality type determines your Hierarchy of Functions. A function is a type-preference, the relevant ones being S/N (concerning information intake) and T/F (concerning decision criteria). Your Hierarchy is some combination of these four functions. The hierarchy of functions is STATED to be in this order:
(1) Dominant (greatest strength)
(2) Auxiliary (secondary strength)
(3) Third (secondary weakness, the converse of Auxiliary)
(4) Fourth (greatest weakness, the converse of Dominant).
For example, if your personality type is ESFJ, then your Hierarchy is FSNT. If your personality type is ENTP, your Hierarchy is NTSF.
(Sidebar: From what I gather, your dominant function is determined by the last letter in your personality type (J/P) which basically concerns how you confront uncertainty, ambiguity, unknowns. For J's, dominant function is their decision criteria preference (T/F). For P's, dominant function is their information intake preference (S/N). This makes sense since J's like to resolve questions quickly and decisively, and have things orderly, so style of decision making is paramount for them. P's like to ruminate and decide only provisionally, leaving open options and possibilities, so style of information gathering is paramount for them.)
Complication: In addition to the above, everyone has what you might call a Public function and a Private function. Think of your public function as what you like to do with other people, how you like to interact with them, and (especially) what you like to talk with them about. Your Private function is what you like to think about or do when you're solo, what you tend to keep to yourself unless you've really thought things through and really know well the person you're communicating with. Now, Extroverts like to use their dominant function in public, and they prefer to keep their auxiliary function private. By contrast, Introverts like to keep their dominant function in the solo realm, and prefer using their auxiliary function in public.
Recall: The Hierarchy given in the book is a list of functions in this STATED order:
Dominant, Auxiliary, converse of Auxiliary, converse of Dominant.
However--and this is the flaw--the ACTUAL order they're listed in goes like this:
Public, Private, converse of Private, converse of Public.
What's the impact? For extroverts, this is no problem, since their dominant function is also their public function, and their auxiliary function is also their private function. So you'll get the same list whether you order functions using the STATED order, or whether you use the unstated ACTUAL order. But for Introverts, dominant and public functions aren't the same, and likewise for auxiliary and private functions. So, for example, if you're INFP, the book says your dominant function is F and you like to keep that private, but really it's your auxiliary function that you like to take public. And it says your auxiliary function is N and you like to take that public, but really that's your dominant function that you like to keep private. Confusion on this point would create problems for you if you went out and tried to interact with others on the basis of N. First off, doing that in public makes you uncomfortable. Second, you wouldn't be interacting with others the way you prefer, on the basis of F.
The upshot is that the Hierarchy the book gives for your personality type should be understood as listing functions in this order: Public, Private, converse Public, converse Private. It actually makes sense to list your public function first in a book about choosing a career, given that a career typically involves getting paid to perform a function for other people.
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